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What would it mean to make something out of wood where the substance of the wood itself had feeling, and a living field of centers appeared in the very wood itself?

Alexander's phenomenological question that motivated the shift to heavy timber construction.

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Wood as Living Presence
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The quality Alexander sought in heavy timber construction after recognizing that stud construction produces 'a bunch of sticks with planes strung between them' lacking deep feeling.

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The feeling comes from the object back to me after it is made, does not go from me to the object while I am making it.claim0.797
When the field of centers appears in something, its deep feeling appears and it is literally as though spirit is made manifest.claim0.790
First articulation of the identity between the field of centers and spirit.
The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.787
Focus on anything else yields something else.
What is the connection between the abstract phenomenon we have learned to identify as the field of centers, and the depth of feeling which appears as the 'emotional substance' of a work?question0.784
"It is this substance which permits — OR DOES NOT PERMIT — the emergence of living centers in the material, and the adaptation of fine structure that is needed to bring the larger whole to life."quote0.781
Alexander's foundational assertion connecting material substance directly to living structure.
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.781
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.
What would it mean to make something one truly likes?question0.780
The diagnostic question for distinguishing genuine liking from artificial or conventional preference.
The feeling or vision of emotional substance comes into our minds from the whole which exists.claim0.777