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concept:life-in-buildingsLife (in buildings)
The quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
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Claims (1)
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- Life comes directly from the wholeness; the degree of life arises from the way centers in the wholeness cohere to form a unity.associated_withThe fundamental thesis of the book: life is an emergent property of the structure of centers.
Concepts (4)
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- life (as quality in architecture)related_toThe felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.
- life (quality in environments)related_toThe felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
- Life (in buildings and artifacts)related_toThe experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
- inner lightextendsA profound color phenomenon in great paintings or buildings where colors are both subdued and brilliantly shining, an extension of life in things, touching the heart of existence.
Chapters (3)
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- The opening chapter of The Nature of Order, Vol. 4, diagnosing the inadequacy of mechanistic cosmology and setting the stage for a new worldview that reconciles self and matter.
- Wholeness And The Theory Of CentersintroducesThe chapter that introduces the fundamental concepts of wholeness and centers, laying the groundwork for understanding life in buildings.
- The current paper, arguing that life in buildings arises from structure-preserving transformations, as exemplified in traditional societies.
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- ALCOVE PatternaboutIn modern architecture homogeneous flat spaces were the norm, and alcoves were taboo.
Questions (1)
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- The leading question of section 9, probing the nature of the inner life perceived in buildings and art.
Related by similarity (8)
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- The quality Alexander attributes to structures with deep wholeness and field of centers; connected to personal feeling
- The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.
- 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 quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- A building's life is not a matter of style but of substance: the presence of living centers.claim0.797Distinction between superficial style and deep structure.
- The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.
- Emphasizes process over blueprint.