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Their actual roughness, and the visible soft morphological character they have because of this roughness, are of the essence of the fact that they are living.

Asserts that roughness is an essential quality of living structure, not merely a sketch artifact.

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Chapter 16: Form Language And Style
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The chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.

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All that is required is that this mechanical procedure is sensitive to the whole and is influenced by and guided by the structure of the whole. That is the secret of morphological emergence in natural phenomena.quote0.780
Load-bearing statement asserting that sensitivity to the whole is the essential requirement for generating novel living structure.
Smaller models produce more alive responses than larger ones in the same alignment family—roughness signals living process over manufactured polish.claim0.779
Color variation (roughness) brings color to life by preventing flatness; the interaction of slightly different hues creates a shimmering unity.claim0.778
The rough humanity visible in these pictures, is no less modern than the titanium struts, glass, plastic sheets, and shimmering homogeneous facades we presently think of as modern.claim0.776
Redefining 'modern' to include the kindlier morphology of living processes.
Roughness can never be consciously or deliberately created; to make a thing live, its roughness must be the product of egolessness, the product of no willclaim0.773
Claim that genuine roughness comes from abandon and freedom, not from contrived effort to appear interesting; artificial roughness is merely contrived
The morphology of a living world will, in the end, be that which can only be created by grace, radiant and comfortable, and beautifully ordinary.claim0.772
Echoes of similar proportions and angles appear throughout any natural system due to uniform underlying processes, giving a consistent character to different parts.claim0.766
The places shown are living structures because they have this character (coherence, roughness, humanity).claim0.763
The selection criterion for the examples: their life resides precisely in their special character.