All functions, when working well in a building, are associated with living centers

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Each living center has life to the extent it is linked to other centers; likewise, sequences generating living centers are interdependent.claim0.821
  Establishes the necessity of the network of sequences.
• A building's life is not a matter of style but of substance: the presence of living centers.claim0.821
  Distinction between superficial style and deep structure.
• Now, each living center has life to the extent that it is linked to other living centers (see Book 1 / INTRODUCTION chapter 4).quote0.810
  Direct statement linking center-interdependence to the concept of life, foundational for the network argument.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.808
  A key insight about position and context.
• Each center gets its life, always, from the fact that it is helping to support and enliven some larger center.claim0.804
  The fundamental recursive rule of living centers.
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.804
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.803
  Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
• The process of creating a living building requires not merely redefining functions, but rearranging and redefining the centers of function — which then opens the door to a new comfortable lifeclaim0.796
  Derived from the farmhouse kitchen case study in section 9