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quote:like-a-person-who-in-being-helpful-becomes-more-graceful-more-beautiful-as-a-person-the-building-volumes-become-beautiful-as-they-help-the-land"Like a person who, in being helpful, becomes more graceful, more beautiful as a person, the building volumes become beautiful as they help the land."
Alexander's reflection on the reciprocal beauty when building volumes serve the land.
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- 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 land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.780If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
- Grounds the practical importance of wholeness in buildings via its effect on human happiness
- Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self