The formation of centers is guided by generic patterns which play the role of genes.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Culture-borne centers play a genetic role analogous to genes in an organism — they describe what is in a deep inner sense and generate the world to be congruent with people's inner feelings and societyclaim0.816
  Synthesizing the pattern-gene analogy with the cultural wholeness argument
• To be making centers, our simplest path is to be making symmetries; we always try to get the maximum feeling from the thing as we design it.claim0.802
• If the community has formed a collective vision that identifies naturally required generic centers, then these generic centers might induce, from within the culture, a natural pressure towards the creation of hulls.hypothesis0.799
  Conditional statement about how culture can drive spatial formation.
• Design choices propagate causally to subsequent centers through the unfolding mechanism itself.claim0.799
• Centers are above all, labile, they are foci of wholeness, they are not things, but regions, qualities, focal points of centeredness.quote0.796
  Key definition capturing the non-atomic, relational nature of centers as fields rather than objects.
• Good shape arises in many natural systems such as leaves, bones, and Chladni patterns, where a strong center is intensified by minor centers.claim0.796
• A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.796
  Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
• 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.claim0.795
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process