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This is the only building I have ever been in where everything — I mean really everything — is necessary.

A remark from a man staying at the Julian Street Inn, illustrating the 'everything necessary' quality.

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Julian Street Inn (Shelter for the Homeless, San Jose)
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Building by Alexander cited as a case where every symmetry is necessary, creating groundedness.

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This is the only building I have ever been in, where absolutely everything is necessary.quote0.955
Spontaneous testimony from a homeless man staying at the Julian Street Inn, highlighting the perceived integral necessity of all details.
To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.799
Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.792
Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
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.quote0.783
The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
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.quote0.782
Load-bearing articulation of Alexander's redefinition of ornament.
The whole building is an ornament, not something that has ornament added to it.claim0.781
A fundamental redefinition of ornament: the entire building, in its microstructure, is an ornament.
No building has real life unless it is deeply and robustly functional.claim0.772
Opening assertion setting the stage for unified ornament-function.
A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.767
Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.