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A real center starts many diameters outside its skin or boundary; the structure beyond contributes to the centeredness.

Key property of authentic centers; they are not isolated objects but embedded in a larger field.

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Postmodern architectural centers suffer from four defects: lack of smaller centers, image-like copies, failure to emerge from wholeness, and failure to help form larger centers.
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Framework for critiquing postmodern design, exemplified by Stirling's Berlin library.

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Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.842
Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.825
A key insight about position and context.
A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.819
Centers are labile foci of wholeness, not things, and are ideally suited to enhance and enlarge the whole while being fused into it.claim0.816
Definitional claim about the nature of centers and their role in unfolding.
The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.814
The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
The real character of the world, its flesh, is governed by the centers in the geometry.claim0.811
Strong statement that all qualitative aspects of places and situations are produced by the spatial system of centers.
The real centers we see when we look at a situation in its wholeness control the real behavior of the thing, the life which develops there, and the feelings people have.claim0.811
Asserts that functional outcomes are determined by the wholeness structure, not by abstract categories.
Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.805
Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.