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What is it like actually to do it? What is it like to make a building, or part of a building, which has the being nature, in an ordinary action?

The opening question of the chapter that frames the entire practical inquiry into forging living centers.

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The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.
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Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.

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In the best cases, the building form will be interwoven with nature itself, seeming extremely ordinary, not like the work of an architect's hands.claim0.800
What is the essence of the way to make a large building in the context of living process?question0.788
Central question the chapter aims to answer, posed at the start of the Great Hall discussion.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.786
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.
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.778
It is only when you treat the raw material of the building as the stuff being shaped and take control with your own hands that you can make a real thing.claim0.777
Hands-on involvement is necessary for worth.
IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.776
The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.775
Emphasizes process over blueprint.
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.claim0.775
The experience of living structure brings us closer to the ground.