The living room will work well, only when it is so shaped that the centers (core resting place, window place, etc.) are really strong and have life in themselves.

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• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.821
  A key insight about position and context.
• Many good rooms will have minor centers of a similar kind, supporting the main center and placed near windows or focal points.claim0.800
  The role of subsidiary centers.
• When a room is not rectangular, it will usually be a rectangle modified by the addition or insertion of other centrally symmetric components.claim0.799
  Refinement of the shape invariant.
• Rooms are given their life, first of all, by their position in the flow of movement, the light, and their connection with the outer world beyond the windows.claim0.790
  The three most salient factors for room life.
• Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.787
  Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
• Each room will most often be simple in shape, most often rectangular.claim0.785
  Invariant of good rooms.
• Even when a room contains major asymmetry, the composition of space will be such as to create a combination of locally symmetric centers.claim0.782
  How asymmetry can still be alive.
• 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.claim0.779
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.