Traditional builders paid attention to the feeling of the emerging structure, allowing them to stay within the guidelines of the transforming whole.

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• If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.862
• I doubt if we shall plumb the full extent to which a living structure is created until we have thoroughly explored and understood just what these ancient builders did, in what frame of mind they did it, and with what attitude.claim0.816
  A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.
• Nearly all great traditional buildings contain such successful structure, making us believe that this differentiating process must have been a predictable and reliable process.claim0.802
  Uses traditional architecture as evidence that the generative sequence is historically reliable
• In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.797
  Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.780
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.780
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.779
  The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
• I believe that a builder who makes everything a hierarchy of beings in that primitive religious sense will, with no further instruction, succeed in making life in buildings.hypothesis0.778
  Predictive claim about the sufficiency of the being-rule for creating life.