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concept:life-in-artifactslife (in artifacts)
The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.
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Concepts (1)
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- Life (in buildings and artifacts)related_toThe experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
Chapters (1)
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- The chapter presenting the argument that deep feeling is the core of living process, illustrated with examples from architecture, painting, and design.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- The quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
- The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
- The quality Alexander attributes to structures with deep wholeness and field of centers; connected to personal feeling
- Argument that a non-mechanical view of matter is necessary to account for architectural facts.
- The felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- Summarizes the chapter’s view that life exists in the very materials of a building.
- 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