We must have a vision of the world in which life, as the foundation of all architecture, is understood as something objective and inspiring.

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• The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.827
  The separation of design and construction prevents life.
• Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.819
  A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
• Life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured, but only by a method that relies on the degree of development or enlightenment of the observer.claim0.802
  The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.801
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• When people think about what is needed to give them surroundings in which life can be lived, they CAN articulate itclaim0.799
  Optimistic statement about the latent capacity of ordinary people to express their deepest needs
• It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.796
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
• IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.795
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• 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.quote0.795
  Connection between process, attention, and love.