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"Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God."

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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Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness.
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It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.825
Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
When you are done, if you have reached what you aim for, you feel the impact of its 'presence.' This is how architecture comes about.claim0.813
Defines the experiential criterion — felt presence — as the endpoint and definition of successful architecture
The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.813
The separation of design and construction prevents life.
Architecture can be understood as a sequence of local symmetry-creation in which each new symmetry intensifies the feeling of the whole.claim0.804
The core of architecture is that whatever is made is always the simplest thing consistent with its necessities of feeling and continuous attention to feeling while it evolves into form.claim0.799
Opening declaration of the chapter, synthesizing the essence of living architecture.
The images or schemata that guide actions may be wholeness preserving or not, and modern architects often paid no attention to existing wholeness.claim0.796
Moral evaluation of modern architecture.
Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processesclaim0.796
Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.
As an architect, Alexander has become convinced that the I is certainly real in buildings and must necessarily play a fundamental role in architecture.claim0.794
Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.