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concept:life-in-thingsLife in Things
The quality Alexander attributes to structures with deep wholeness and field of centers; connected to personal feeling
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- Wholenessassociated_withAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
- deep feeling (unitary feeling of the whole)associated_withA singular, non-emotional feeling that arises from experiencing the wholeness; distinct from emotions. It is the experiential grasp of the whole.
- Person-stuffassociated_withAlexander's term for the personal substrate underlying matter; living structure awakens person-stuff in matter
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- The experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
- The quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
- The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.
- Load-bearing ontological statement condensing Alexander's thesis about the personal nature of life
- The felt quality of wholeness and adaptation that makes a place truly sustainable and nourishing.
- The leading question of section 9, probing the nature of the inner life perceived in buildings and art.
- The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
- 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