we shape our buildings; and they shape us.

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• The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.798
  Universal claim about all living architecture.
• The more austere forms of buildings also arise from the wholeness that comes from buildings that are near rectangular, to make positive space.claim0.794
• "Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think."quote0.793
  Gautama Buddha epigraph at §BODY PATTERNING AND COGNITION, thematically connecting mindfulness to embodied self-formation.
• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.785
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.785
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.
• The room sticks out and claims a substantial part of the perimeter, beginning to shape the building around the room.claim0.782
  How a room's need for light and view determines the building envelope.
• This is the moment when the building becomes architecture.claim0.781
  The brutal geometric moment — making positive elements, syncopated harmony, massive stones — is what transforms mere building into architecture
• "We could feel ... the actual buildings ... standing ... there."quote0.780
  Hisae Hosoi's description of the experience when flags were placed on the Eishin site.