Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.

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• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.848
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• Uniqueness is a necessary aspect of living structure.claim0.831
  Strong claim that living structure cannot exist without every part being unique.
• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.824
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.824
• In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.818
  The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
• A structure gets its life according to the density and intensity of centers which have been formed in it.claim0.818
  The fourth key idea, summarizing the basis of living structure.
• To achieve living structure, one must prune and re-arrange until every single part, every part of every part, and every part between parts are all living centers.claim0.817
  Maxim for the demanding effort of genuinely center-based design.
• The fifteen properties necessarily accompany the centers and symmetries in living structure.claim0.816