"The true landscape of architecture is the landscape of people nourished, satisfied, living a full life, being happy, a landscape that shows that happiness derived from the surroundings."

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• The true landscape of architecture is that arrangement of material which, as nearly as possible, helps us arrive at this blissful state, and is generated by the free application of a living adaptive process.claim0.924
  Redefinition of architecture's purpose away from glossy images toward human nourishment.
• Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.808
  A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.804
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• The environment is pleasant, beautiful, humane and people can achieve a true sense of belonging and love for the places where they live.claim0.769
  Overall qualitative evaluation of the planned environment.
• When architectural structure is an unfolded one — created by repeated application of living processes — then what comes from it is a world where people are able to feel happy, free, and themselves.claim0.767
  Main thesis linking living structure to human happiness.
• It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.767
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
• We must have a vision of the world in which life, as the foundation of all architecture, is understood as something objective and inspiring.claim0.764
  The requirement for a new cosmology that makes life objective.
• "Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God."concept0.761
  Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.