Everything you make must be a being.

A core directive from Book 4, p. 95, quoted to define the essence of living process in large buildings.

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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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Whatever you make must be a being.quote0.938
The compressed, capsule-form instruction summarizing the fundamental process; a motto for the chapter.
To make a thing which is one, I myself, the maker, must become one with the world.claim0.845
The maker's self-transformation as a prerequisite for creating unity.
Beings can only be made of beings. If it is not made of beings, it cannot be a being.claim0.835
A recursive rule: to be an I-like center, a center must be composed of centers which are themselves I-like.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.quote0.814
Einstein's assertion invoked to explain why BMR preserves accuracy while reducing complexity
The single criterion of whether everything is made of beings correlates accurately with the presence of life in the environment.hypothesis0.805
Testable hypothesis that the being-character is a reliable indicator of experienced life.
The fundamental process can be compressed to the instruction: Whatever you make must be a being.claim0.802
Summary claim that the entire process reduces to the single rule of making beings at all scales.
Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.798
The universe is made of person-stuff, not machine-stuff; life is the person-stuffclaim0.797
Alexander's most radical ontological claim about the nature of living structure