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Why should the practical beauty and efficiency of a girder in a bridge have anything to do with I?

Alexander's central puzzle motivating Proposition 2: the correlation between functional life and self-likeness extends even to engineering, not just aesthetic experience.

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The degree of life of each center is correlated with the degree to which that center is a picture of the self, and this holds for all people, not just individuals.
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Proposition 2 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim that self-likeness is a universal, species-wide measure of life.

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The beautiful shape of the bridge was actually generated, dynamically, during the process of construction.claim0.765
Observation about the Golden Gate Bridge, supporting that process can generate form.
Why does beauty of space and mass generate good engineering structure?question0.762
Central puzzle of §4, noting the mystery that aesthetic process yields efficient structure.
Why should it matter so much, whether a person makes something beautiful or not?question0.736
The very same positive space which creates a truss's beauty also creates its structural stability and good structural behavior.claim0.730
Direct connection between aesthetic quality and engineering performance.
This quality, whether it occurs in a great work or a small work, always has the same essential purpose: to make a connection to the I, to reach, in material substance, the face of God.claim0.725
The purpose of all living quality is to connect to the I.
Finite element analysis showed the pierced-concrete bridge had high structural strength with unexpectedly low weight and cost.finding0.720
Engineering validation of the innovative bridge design; the structure performed well in simulations despite its unconventional appearance.
What seems like an imposition of geometry is necessary as a part of every living process.claim0.715
The chapter's most expansive claim: geometric imposition is universal across all living processes, not just buildings
The intention that each part should be I-like is what governs its shape, and is what makes the weaver weave this shape, and not some other.claim0.715
Alexander's claim that I-intention is the causal driver of the precise form of living centers in traditional making.