Even a simple doorstep can only be made into a living center by standing inside the wholeness of the place and adapting it step by step in the actual situation.

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• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.822
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• To make a building that lives, it must be allowed to unfold step by step in real time, both before and during construction; we cannot fake it.claim0.797
  The necessity of real-time unfolding for authentic living architecture.
• The life of a center—even in a simple door—depends on the configuration of component centers and the wider system of centers around it.claim0.793
  Generalization from the door examples.
• The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.789
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
• How is this to happen? What kinds of center-creating steps can have such an impact that is both piecemeal and yet also helping to repair and enhance the whole at each step forward?question0.782
  Central driving question of the chapter, motivating the exposition of the fundamental process.
• IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.780
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.778
  Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
• When we follow the fundamental process, we try to make, at each step, a real living center.claim0.777
  Operational description of the fundamental process's intent.