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.

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• It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.841
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• 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.quote0.841
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.833
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.832
• A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.828
• the relative harmony or 'life' of a given building may be understood directly from the internal cohesion of the structure... without reference to opinion, prejudice or philosophy, merely as a consequence of the wholeness which exists.quote0.826
  Strong claim that life/beauty is an objective property of the wholeness structure.
• If the feeling is genuine and does arise out of the site itself, then it must be thought of as an absolute which later stages of design and construction must only strengthen, deepen.hypothesis0.825
  A conditional rule for the unfolding process.
• I feel the WHOLE building as an ornament. ... the whole building is an ornament—whose rooms, passages, staircases, windows, ceilings, paving, benches, lamps are all extensions, pieces of that ornament.quote0.824
  Load-bearing articulation of Alexander's redefinition of ornament.