We can sense, ahead of time, the quality of the completed whole, even when we cannot yet visualize it.

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• In each step of a living process one must be able to feel, ahead of time, the feeling which will later exist in the finished object, without yet knowing its form in detail.claim0.866
• Feeling gives us a feeling of what to do next in the unfolding of the whole.claim0.805
• The feeling of such a floor cannot be accurately judged from a drawing made in advance.claim0.805
  Justification for physical mockups and on-site design adaptation.
• When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.804
  Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.
• Wholeness can be felt; using feeling to grasp the whole is a move towards precision.claim0.803
• It is only when surrounded, all around, by such living structure that we begin to feel ourselves whole.quote0.800
  Summation of the human effect of interlocking positive space and mass within a building.
• We carry the feeling, in the form of a dimly held vision of emotional substance, before we know the form.claim0.799
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.798
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.