At the small avenue of light green trees alongside the Dallas Art Museum, observers' sense of humanity was experienced as rising; in the harsh museum plaza with iron sculpture, humanity was experienced as dropping

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• Approximately 100 people at the Dallas City Hall Council Chamber in 1992 nodded in agreement with Alexander's examples of humanity rising and falling in Dallas streets, suggesting shared phenomenological responsefinding0.768
  Social validation that the humanity-expanding experience is not idiosyncratic but broadly shared across observers
• The ornament from a Pennsylvania barn causes the observer's humanity to expand; the symbolic ornament from Brasilia causes humanity to diminish, despite Brasilia's ornament being intended as upliftingfinding0.764
  Comparative case study illustrating that intended symbolic meaning does not determine actual phenomenological impact on observer wholeness
• Schrödinger's thought experiment suggests that color sensation might directly penetrate the realm of the single mind or ground, and inner light intensifies this bridge.claim0.758
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.745
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• We seem to have a fundamental observation - so far unexplained - that among pairs of events, bits of space, places, and particles of existence, we can usually judge that one has a greater degree of life and the other less, at least according to our feeling.quote0.744
  Summarizes the empirical bedrock of the whole argument.
• Life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured, but only by a method that relies on the degree of development or enlightenment of the observer.claim0.744
  The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.
• Frank Lloyd Wright used an unfolding process in his early works (prairie houses, Unity Temple) but his later works like the Guggenheim Museum were image-driven.claim0.741
  Evolution of Wright's approach.
• When I look at a thing which has a living quality, sometimes I am aware of it, almost as if it is faintly glowing.quote0.741
  Alexander's direct experience of the luminous quality in living things.