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hypothesis:if-the-volume-is-congruent-with-the-wholeness-which-existed-previously-in-the-city-or-on-the-land-a-profound-feeling-can-often-come-from-its-congruenceIf the volume is congruent with the wholeness which existed previously in the city or on the land, a profound feeling can often come from its congruence.
The predicted outcome of a good site-design process.
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- Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
- A conditional rule for the unfolding process.
- Description of how feeling guides design steps from the existing wholeness of the site.
- The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.805If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
- A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.