life (as quality in architecture)

The felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.

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Life (in buildings)
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The quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
Life as a Quality of Space
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The idea that life is not merely an attribute of living organisms but an attribute of space itself; any spatial system can have more or less life depending on the life of its component centers and their density
life (quality in environments)
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The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.

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Life (in buildings and artifacts)concept0.848
The experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
Life is structural, a quality that comes about because of the existence of a discernible structure in the wholeness.claim0.821
The central thesis of the chapter, setting up the explanation of how life emerges.
Life is a pervasive quality that includes ordinary biological life but also a kind of life in stones, concrete, and wood posts.claim0.819
Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.809
A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
life (in artifacts)concept0.796
The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.
life (beyond-biological quality)concept0.793
The general, non-biological quality that Alexander claims exists in all material systems to varying degrees.
Life (property of space)concept0.789
The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.787
Emphasizes process over blueprint.