Archetypal Core (savage quality)

The deep, fundamental quality that emerges when the fundamental process is used purely; described as savage, wild, untamed, and close to the root of human feeling.

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Claims (2)

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Many 20th-century artists (Stravinsky, Bartok, Prokofiev, Derain, Vlaminck, Rouault) searched for and found the savage core in their work.
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Historical claim about artists' pursuit of the archetypal core.
When the fundamental process is used well, the result has an archetypal, savage quality.
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Assertion that the archetypal core naturally arises from unfolding.

Concepts (3)

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strong archetype
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A narrower, rarer class of forms that go to the root of human existence, more powerful and awe-filled than mere living structure.
archetypal form
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Forms that arise from true unfolding, embodying the deepest invariant structure that can take a thousand faces.
savage (Ruskinian wild, untamed)
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Used by Alexander to mean wild, untamed, original, direct, unweakened by sophisticated thought; not ferocious.

Chapters (2)

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Chapter 4: How Differently A Living Process Generates Large Public Buildings
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The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.
Chapter 20: Summation: The Morphology Of Living Architecture: What We May Call Archetypal Form
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Final chapter of Vol. 3, synthesizing the morphology of living architecture, introducing archetypal forms, and distilling the core invariant structure.

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The archetypal core is the expression of ancient and eternal truths of unity.claim0.835
archetypal character of spaceconcept0.740
Spatial quality that resonates deeply with the human psyche, connecting to self.
The strong archetype is a narrower, more awe-filled class that reaches the root of what it is to be a person; it is harder to find and rarer.claim0.713
The gymnasium on the lake is another place that reached the archetypal form.claim0.713
The weak archetype is identical to the whole class of buildings that have living structure (the class called Living in the appendix).claim0.713
The strong archetype comes when the search for living structure is combined with a conscious desire for the origin of all things.claim0.711
weak archetypeconcept0.704
The class of all buildings that have living structure, i.e., the range generated by the fundamental process.
"There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named"quote0.703
Verbatim quote from Alexander (1979, p.19) defining the Quality Without a Name, used to motivate the exploration.