Wabi-sabi

Japanese aesthetic concept of rustic, imperfect, transient beauty; Alexander equates it with the rubbed-in, used quality necessary for belonging.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

framework

Zen Buddhism
associated_with
School of Buddhism known for koans and paradoxical teachings; invoked through Huang Po and Lin-chi.

chapter

How Living Process Generates The Process Of Construction
introduces
Chapter 15 of Vol. 3, arguing that the living quality of buildings depends on a process of making that allows continuous feedback and adaptation.
Chapter 1: The Phenomenon of Life
introduces
Opening chapter of Vol 1, introducing a broad conception of life and arguing that all things possess life in some degree, using examples from nature, art, and everyday experience.
Chapter 2: How Living Processes Establish Our Belonging To The World
cites
In this chapter, Alexander describes belonging, its dependence on living processes and structure, and provides photographic and painted examples of the blissful state in ordinary life.

concept

Roughness
same_concept_as
The property that living things have a certain ease and morphological roughness which is an essential structural feature, not an accident; the seemingly rough arrangement is more precise because it comes from careful guarding of essential centers, requiring egolessness and abandon
mechanical perfection
contradicts
The 20th-century ideal of uniform exact dimensions and surfaces, which Alexander argues drives out real life.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

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

spiritconcept0.679
A dimension of the environment linked to wholeness and the sacred, beyond material concerns.