"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."

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• 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.quote0.824
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• 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.quote0.818
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• 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.claim0.812
  Opening declaration of the chapter, synthesizing the essence of living architecture.
• There is only one I, a personal universal presence that underlies all living structure and manifests as the feeling of relatedness.claim0.806
  Alexander's core metaphysical proposal introduced in §8.
• 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.hypothesis0.797
  Promised for Book 4, chapter 4 (Note 15).
• 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.claim0.793
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.
• The theoretical and factual substance of the world, its structure and its life, are congruent with the feelings we all have, not with professional architectural images.claim0.793
  A metaphysical claim that the true nature of order aligns with genuine human feeling, not with professional convention.
• The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.792
  A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.