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How can each of them put something of themselves into the building? And how can they together put their deep feeling into the building, so that it comes to life as one whole?

Question about organizing craftsmen in a large project to achieve collective living structure.

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To sustain living process in a large project, about 50 decisions per day must be made in an atmosphere of concern for living detail within an emerging whole, shared by 200 workers.
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Quantified management requirement for implementing living process at scale.

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Chapter 4: How Differently A Living Process Generates Large Public Buildings
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The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.

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We become happy in the presence of deep wholeness; a building with life creates a comforting and profound wholesomeness in those who enter itclaim0.816
Grounds the practical importance of wholeness in buildings via its effect on human happiness
It is only when engineering and architecture work together from the very first day that deep feeling or life can be attained in a building.claim0.812
Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.
A building that has life creates deep feeling in the person who encounters it.claim0.809
When we experience this one, either in the act of building, or in the act of enjoying what someone else has built, we somehow ourselves come more closely into relation with the underlying ground-stuff of the universe.claim0.808
The experience of living structure brings us closer to the ground.
To make a building that lives, it must be allowed to unfold step by step in real time, both before and during construction; we cannot fake it.claim0.804
The necessity of real-time unfolding for authentic living architecture.
It is only when surrounded, all around, by such living structure that we begin to feel ourselves whole.quote0.802
Summation of the human effect of interlocking positive space and mass within a building.
To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.801
Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.799
Love as the driving force of living creation.