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claim:the-main-job-of-any-task-of-creating-centers-is-always-to-melt-away-the-divisions-between-things-unifying-space-through-interlocking-centersThe main job of any task of creating centers is always to melt away the divisions between things, unifying space through interlocking centers.
Central insight from the tile design narrative, applicable to all center-making.
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- Empirical claim about the density of living centers achieved through hand-crafted design iterative process.
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- Tiled wall at Julian Street InnsupportsThe exterior second-story diagonal checkerboard wall of concrete and hand-painted tiles, refined through six mockups to unify space without divisions.
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- Culmination of the tile-design narrative, expressing the achievement of total spatial unity through interlocking centers.
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- Defines the ultimate aim of building, providing the framework for understanding ornament.
- Key principle that buildings are instruments to create positive outdoor space, not objects in themselves.
- The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
- Suggests that sufficiently intense fields of centers transcend ordinary matter.
- Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
- Focus on anything else yields something else.
- The principle of preserving and intensifying existing centers, key to the fundamental process.