True spirituality in a building is achieved when there is a balance of perfection and roughness — wabi-to-sabi.

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• No building has the wabi-sabi, rusty, imperfect quality at the time when it is built; but some buildings and landscapes invite it, encourage it, foster it.claim0.818
  A nuanced claim about the temporal dimension of belonging and living structure.
• Pleasing oneself, when it is truly done, leads to the most sublime, the most profound, the most truly spiritual art.claim0.788
  Alexander claims that true pleasing oneself is identical to the path intended by the greatest religious teachers.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.777
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.770
  Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
• Simplicity is a spiritually achieved state of art.claim0.763
  Claims the spiritual dimension of true simplicity.
• A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.763
• The deepest living structure in buildings is not attainable without some new understanding, without a new faith based on a new physical and intellectual grasp of the nature of the material universe.claim0.762
  A strong conditional: the creation of the highest living structure requires a cosmology that reunites self and matter in terms consistent with modern science.
• A building, or a building detail, or a painting, is, to some degree or other, spirit.claim0.761
  The claim that made things are actual realizations of spirit, in their material substance.