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The true landscape of architecture is that arrangement of material which, as nearly as possible, helps us arrive at this blissful state, and is generated by the free application of a living adaptive process.

Redefinition of architecture's purpose away from glossy images toward human nourishment.

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Chapter 2: How Living Processes Establish Our Belonging To The World
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In this chapter, Alexander describes belonging, its dependence on living processes and structure, and provides photographic and painted examples of the blissful state in ordinary life.

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"The true landscape of architecture is the landscape of people nourished, satisfied, living a full life, being happy, a landscape that shows that happiness derived from the surroundings."quote0.924
A central statement of the chapter: the judgment of architecture rests on its actual performance in nourishing the human spirit.
When architectural structure is an unfolded one — created by repeated application of living processes — then what comes from it is a world where people are able to feel happy, free, and themselves.claim0.793
Main thesis linking living structure to human happiness.
It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.787
Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.785
Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.784
A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.781
Universal claim about all living architecture.
The core of architecture is that whatever is made is always the simplest thing consistent with its necessities of feeling and continuous attention to feeling while it evolves into form.claim0.778
Opening declaration of the chapter, synthesizing the essence of living architecture.
A truly dynamic structure-preserving process generates layouts in which every single bit of space becomes a living center — streets, lots, gardens, courtyards, housesclaim0.776
Core claim about the morphological output of the fundamental process applied to neighborhood design.