Empirically verifiable connection between God and architecture

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• Alexander claims there is a necessary connection between God and architecture that is, in part, empirically verifiable.claim0.870
  Summary of Alexander's position in the 2016 article 'Making the Garden'.
• Order, beauty, and architecture are empirically verifiable and connected to Godclaim0.860
  Alexander's late-life position (c. 2016) claiming empirical verification of connection between Christian God and architectural order; Steenson explicitly rejects this as dangerous.
• There is not one singular, verifiable system of beauty, or architecture, or god, and I fear what would happen if there were.claim0.765
  Steenson's direct refutation of Alexander's late-life position on empirically verifiable order; articulated in context of 2020 authoritarianism and Black Lives Matter.
• The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.764
  Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
• "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."concept0.760
  Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
• Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.760
  A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
• the relative harmony or 'life' of a given building may be understood directly from the internal cohesion of the structure... without reference to opinion, prejudice or philosophy, merely as a consequence of the wholeness which exists.quote0.758
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• The goodness of the results is visible in the evident life and in the profound fact that unfolding generates an 'architecture'.claim0.757
  The dual validation of living process: life and the emergence of architectural order.