Life (in buildings and artifacts)

The experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.

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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 (in artifacts)
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The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.

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life (quality in environments)concept0.849
The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
life (as quality in architecture)concept0.848
The felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.
Life in Thingsconcept0.835
The quality Alexander attributes to structures with deep wholeness and field of centers; connected to personal feeling
Life (property of space)concept0.831
The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
A building that has life creates deep feeling in the person who encounters it.claim0.824
Life as a Quality of Spaceconcept0.814
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, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured, but only by a method that relies on the degree of development or enlightenment of the observer.claim0.813
The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.
A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.810
Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.