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This is focused on beauty. It is brutal, only because, to do it, we must forget our responsibilities and the subtleties of site and function, and enter the play of pure forms with as much emphasis on feeling, art, and structure alone as we can.

Defines brutality as the temporary forgetting of practical responsibilities to focus purely on structural beauty

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The brutal geometry comes from the need for the internal geometrical coherence of the building, not from the surroundings.
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Clarifies that the alien, brutal quality originates in internal structural logic rather than contextual adaptation

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The gist of the process, what I call the formal or brutal process, lies in the use of very simple geometry, first introduced with force, after one makes sure that the inspiration has arisen from the place, and from the introduction, then, of just enough syncopation into the order, so that it truly fits the necessities of site and place and time, without doing violence to them.claim0.798
Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence
The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.797
Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
Mystical tradition, by asking the believer to concentrate on God—the ground of all things, in pure humility—helped the artist dissolve images and focus on reality as it is, thereby enabling structure‑preserving steps.claim0.795
A more detailed version of the practical‑mechanism claim, positioning mysticism as a cognitive tool.
In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.794
Connection between process, attention, and love.
I believe it is a necessary state of mind, without which it is not possible to reach the purity of structure needed to create a living thing.claim0.794
The indispensability of the gift-to-God intention for creating life in buildings.
We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.792
Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
We cannot create living order only by concentrating on appearance; we must characterize the geometry that comes from living process.claim0.786
If the feeling is genuine and does arise out of the site itself, then it must be thought of as an absolute which later stages of design and construction must only strengthen, deepen.hypothesis0.785
A conditional rule for the unfolding process.