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A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptations

Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy

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Successful traditional built environments were always generated by culture-specific pattern languages that ensured variety, beauty, and fitness through combinatorial use of generic centers
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Historical generalization undergirding the prescriptive theory of pattern languages

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Culture-borne centers play a genetic role analogous to genes in an organism — they describe what is in a deep inner sense and generate the world to be congruent with people's inner feelings and society
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Synthesizing the pattern-gene analogy with the cultural wholeness argument

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A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.844
Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.844
A living process always creates something unique at every point, respecting the uniqueness of every person and every place.claim0.836
The core of all living process is step-by-step adaptation — the modification and evolution which happen gradually in response to information about the degree to which the emerging structure supports the whole.claim0.836
Definition of the essential mechanism of living structure formation.
The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.834
Focus on anything else yields something else.
If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.833
Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
When centers are being created, a high proportion of them are locally symmetrical; living process is, in part, a process of creating local symmetries.claim0.833
The step-by-step evolution of living centers, in a progressive differentiating process, is a biological necessity — an essential part of the adaptation of a complex system.claim0.828
Claims that unfolding is not a stylistic choice but a biological requirement for adaptive buildings.