The act of division, creating upper and lower zones, determining proportions of what lies below and what lies above, makes an intervention in the potential field that is as profound as any other act of creation.

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• The intuitive placing of members to create a field of centers produces results in which the forces are beautifully distributedclaim0.794
  Alexander's claim that aesthetic/structural intuition guided by living-center logic yields mechanically efficient designs, confirmed by FEA.
• What is needed to support individual acts of construction is a three-dimensional diagram of the actual shape of the needed space, more physical even than a model.claim0.794
  The core proposal for a new form of urban plan to guide piecemeal construction.
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.787
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• In a controlled geometric comparison, subdividing a rectangle asymmetrically with a thin band of space between the four resulting rooms produces a more profound form — with more levels of scale, boundaries, and centers — than simply cutting it into four equal parts.finding0.786
  The geometric demonstration that asymmetrical subdivision with boundary bands creates more living structure
• It is this injection of definite, strong, geometrical order that allows the profound depth of the made thing — the building in the land — and it is from this that the order must and will arise.claim0.785
  The geometric injection is the causal source of the building's profound depth
• In general, the geometry will be created by differentiation, not by addition or accretion; the parts are given their dimensions by differentiating operations within the spatial shell.claim0.782
  A formal principle of the living process that uniqueness emerges from successive differentiation.
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.780
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.776
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.