When something works, or is functional, its space is awakened to a very high degree. It becomes alive. The space itself becomes alive.

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• 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.claim0.840
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
• Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.837
  Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
• When living and working intermingle, a place becomes more real.claim0.821
  Links functional mix to phenomenological authenticity.
• Life is exactly that property of space in which each spot becomes unique according to its place in the larger scheme of things.claim0.820
  Definitional claim equating life with spatial uniqueness.
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.819
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.818
• The life which appears is an attribute of space itself.claim0.813
  The final distillation of the chapter's argument, making life a fundamental property of matter/space.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.809
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.