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The intuitive placing of members to create a field of centers produces results in which the forces are beautifully distributed

Alexander's claim that aesthetic/structural intuition guided by living-center logic yields mechanically efficient designs, confirmed by FEA.

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Intuitively sketched trusses placing members to create field of centers were almost at once confirmed efficient by finite element analysis
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Key empirical result showing that aesthetic/structural intuition guided by living-center logic produces mechanically efficient designs.

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In hundreds of examples, our ability to see the field of centers and to produce the centers indicated geometrically tends to produce an object which works better.claim0.830
Empirical generalisation from built examples, with no counterexample found.
Well-ordered ranges of sizes create a field effect that ties centers together to form a whole.claim0.827
Explanation of how Levels of Scale property operates through emergent field phenomena.
Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.hypothesis0.825
Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.
A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.820
The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.814
Focus on anything else yields something else.
Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.813
Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
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.claim0.808
Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
The objective oneness of space which I have identified as the field of centers is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.806
The startling conclusion that the deep structure of space is simultaneously the most intimate, vulnerable, personal thing.