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.

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• The core of architecture is that whatever is made is always the simplest thing consistent with its necessities of feeling and continuous attention to feeling while it evolves into form.claim0.926
  Opening declaration of the chapter, synthesizing the essence of living architecture.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.841
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• 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.claim0.839
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• The core of a living process—whether a building is large or small—is that it comes from people, from their inner desires—and genuinely does so; that it meets their archetypal core, and thereby makes them feel at homequote0.831
  Concise statement of the people-centered foundation of living process.
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.830
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.829
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• "There is something ineffable, a mystical core in things, that is deeply related to our own individual self, and that THIS — not something else — is the true core both of matter and of architecture."quote0.824
  Closing statement of the Mid-Book Appendix identifying the I as the foundation of both matter and architecture.
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.823
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.