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We become happy in the presence of deep wholeness; a building with life creates a comforting and profound wholesomeness in those who enter it

Grounds the practical importance of wholeness in buildings via its effect on human happiness

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Centers which have life increase our own life because we ourselves are centers too; we feel more wholesome in the presence of things which have wholesomeness in them
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Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
Understanding the connection between objective life in a thing and deep-seated happiness is capable of healing the rift between objective and subjective created since the 17th century
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Frames Alexander's project as a post-Cartesian philosophical revolution

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A building that has life creates deep feeling in the person who encounters it.claim0.851
It is only when engineering and architecture work together from the very first day that deep feeling or life can be attained in a building.claim0.818
Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.
How can each of them put something of themselves into the building? And how can they together put their deep feeling into the building, so that it comes to life as one whole?question0.816
Question about organizing craftsmen in a large project to achieve collective living structure.
When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.809
The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.807
Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
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.quote0.805
Connection between process, attention, and love.
In order to make buildings by unfolding, it is necessary to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.claim0.805
Connection between process, perception, and love.
the relative harmony or 'life' of a given building may be understood directly from the internal cohesion of the structure... without reference to opinion, prejudice or philosophy, merely as a consequence of the wholeness which exists.quote0.804
Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.