Four major process steps are needed to bring life to a room: choose the position, conceive main and minor centers, attend to filigree and fine structure, simplify to bring tranquility.

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• Each room has four main stages to its unfolding: position, main centers, fine structure, tranquility.claim0.841
  The structural thesis of the chapter.
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.816
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.802
• In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.801
  Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
• When we follow the fundamental process, we try to make, at each step, a real living center.claim0.800
  Operational description of the fundamental process's intent.
• In a living process, every step is done in such a way as to increase the beauty—the life—of the whole.quote0.792
  Encapsulates the chapter's main message.
• Rooms are given their life, first of all, by their position in the flow of movement, the light, and their connection with the outer world beyond the windows.claim0.792
  The three most salient factors for room life.
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.789
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.