The first words placed define the space; every subsequent element is in relation to this initiating act

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• The first words placed define the spaceclaim0.880
  Foundational assertion that opening placement determines all subsequent spatial relations and meanings; echoes formal composition in visual arts.
• The first move, the initiating gesture, the primary action is utterly–and yet only incidentally–profound.claim0.799
  Ambivalent profundity of the initiating graphical act.
• "Remember that each building exists mainly to activate the land."quote0.783
  A summarizing heading that serves as a load-bearing aphorism for the whole chapter.
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.781
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• Primary moves: placement, relation, elementframework0.781
  The foundational set of spatial operations: position as distinction, relativity of all elements, and agonistic struggle within graphical systems.
• How does the position of the first words on a page affect all that follows?question0.769
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.766
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
• it creates a ‘we’; what we are doing, for example, whether our behaviours are coordinated or not, becomes a relevant variable.quote0.765
  Illustrates how non-separable functions shift identity to the collective level.