love of life

The deep attention to and care for the wholeness of a place and its inhabitants, seen as synonymous with paying attention to the wholeness.

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concept

paying attention to the wholeness
same_concept_as
The act of seeing and feeling the entire field of centers at a place, which Alexander equates with love of life.

chapter

Chapter 3: Structure-Preserving Transformations In Traditional Society
introduces
The current paper, arguing that life in buildings arises from structure-preserving transformations, as exemplified in traditional societies.

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Life (in buildings)concept0.763
The quality that makes a building or place alive, beautiful, and supportive of human life; argued to arise from the wholeness of centers.
Life (property of space)concept0.747
The quality that makes a space or structure feel alive, whole, and wonderful; measured by the degree of wholeness.
Degree of lifeconcept0.741
The measure of how much living structure a thing possesses, ranging from high (tea bowl) to low (computer casing).
criterion of lifeconcept0.739
The standard derived from Book I for judging whether a structure or process is living; now claimed to be publicly sharable.
Life (in buildings and artifacts)concept0.738
The experienced presence of aliveness, wholeness, and connectedness in built form, beyond biological life.
life (in artifacts)concept0.730
The quality of having profound wholeness, which makes us feel our own existence most deeply.
It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.725
Love as the driving force of living creation.
life (as quality in architecture)concept0.725
The felt quality of wholeness and aliveness in a building or a work, the aim of the fundamental process.