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When you are done, if you have reached what you aim for, you feel the impact of its 'presence.' This is how architecture comes about.

Defines the experiential criterion — felt presence — as the endpoint and definition of successful architecture

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This is the moment when the building becomes architecture.
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The brutal geometric moment — making positive elements, syncopated harmony, massive stones — is what transforms mere building into architecture

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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.claim0.829
Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
The goodness of the results is visible in the evident life and in the profound fact that unfolding generates an 'architecture'.claim0.813
The dual validation of living process: life and the emergence of architectural order.
It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.813
Emphasizes process over blueprint.
"Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God."concept0.813
Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.812
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.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.812
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
When we experience this one, either in the act of building, or in the act of enjoying what someone else has built, we somehow ourselves come more closely into relation with the underlying ground-stuff of the universe.claim0.811
The experience of living structure brings us closer to the ground.
The feeling comes from the object back to me after it is made, does not go from me to the object while I am making it.claim0.808