The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.

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• Ornament and function arise from a single evolving morphology; in a living building they are one.claim0.828
  The alternative to the mechanistic split, crucial for a vital architecture.
• 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.claim0.827
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
• I believe that these properties arise because they are the principal ways in which centers can be strengthened by other centers.quote0.824
  The central insight of the chapter: the fifteen properties all reduce to ways centers help each other
• The fifteen properties, the field of centers, and the wholeness thoroughly and completely determine the way that buildings work.claim0.824
  Universality claim that the same geometric properties govern both beauty and function.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.823
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design 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.quote0.823
  The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.821
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.819
  Love as the driving force of living creation.