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concept:life-beyond-biological-qualitylife (beyond-biological quality)
The general, non-biological quality that Alexander claims exists in all material systems to varying degrees.
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- Degree of lifeextendsThe measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
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- Key probe that challenges architectural aesthetics by revealing hidden truth.
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- Degrees of LifementionsChapter 2, introducing the concept that all space has an objective, measurable degree of life.
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- Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
- The conventional 20th-century definition: a carbon-oxygen-hydrogen-nitrogen system capable of self-reproduction, healing, and stability over a lifetime.
- The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
- 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
- The felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.
- The central thesis of the chapter, setting up the explanation of how life emerges.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.