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concept:comfortable-ordinarinessComfortable ordinariness
The quality of being rough, not manicured, concept-free, and genuine, which produces life in everyday situations and modern artifacts.
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- Direct life (life in poverty)associated_withLife that shines out in poverty and slums because middle-class conceptions and media images have not killed it; the direct voice of the heart.
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- Chapter 1: The Phenomenon of LifeintroducesOpening chapter of Vol 1, introducing a broad conception of life and arguing that all things possess life in some degree, using examples from nature, art, and everyday experience.
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- Prescribes the way to achieve life in contemporary work.
- The profound beauty that emerges from ordinary, unpretentious places shaped by living process.
- Scale representing ordered attribute values.
- A sense of being complete and comfortable, as in the friendly house edge, that enhances life.
- Final lines describing the ultimate ordinariness and authenticity of living architecture.
- The deep, unpretentious ease that arises in places where people can be themselves, supported by the subtle adaptation of the physical environment.
- The core prescription of the chapter: making what truly pleases you at the deepest level, which Alexander argues is the key to creating all living structure and the path to the I.
- A lasting, profound liking that survives extended exposure and differs from superficial, fashionable preferences.