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.

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• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.829
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
• 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.claim0.827
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• 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.quote0.826
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.825
  Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.824
  Connection between process, attention, and love.
• The relation between a person's own wholeness and the wholeness of things in their environment is a direct consequence of the nature of wholeness itself.claim0.819
• The wholesomeness and integrity of a person's existence is directly dependent on the extent to which that person can sustain an inner relatedness with the world, which itself depends on the extent of living structure.hypothesis0.818
  Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.817
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.