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- Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
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- Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
- Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
- The separation of design and construction prevents life.
- A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
- Connection between process, attention, and love.
- Connection between process, perception, and love.
- Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
- Opening declaration of the chapter, synthesizing the essence of living architecture.