I believe that a builder who makes everything a hierarchy of beings in that primitive religious sense will, with no further instruction, succeed in making life in buildings.

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• The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.824
  The separation of design and construction prevents life.
• I doubt if we shall plumb the full extent to which a living structure is created until we have thoroughly explored and understood just what these ancient builders did, in what frame of mind they did it, and with what attitude.claim0.817
  A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.
• 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 processesclaim0.801
  Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.
• The deepest living structure in buildings is not attainable without some new understanding, without a new faith based on a new physical and intellectual grasp of the nature of the material universe.claim0.795
  A strong conditional: the creation of the highest living structure requires a cosmology that reunites self and matter in terms consistent with modern science.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.789
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.789
• As an architect, Alexander has become convinced that the I is certainly real in buildings and must necessarily play a fundamental role in architecture.claim0.789
  Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.787
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.