The Shaker box finger joint started as a formal intuition about the field of centers, and then gradually fitted itself to the functional problem at hand.

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• The compelling and driving force behind the Shakers' idea of the hanging chairs was the creation of the crown structure of centers with a pure spiritual light.claim0.750
  Rejects the purely mechanistic explanation of Shaker practicality; centers came first.
• It is only knowledge of the field of centers, and the practice of making it, which gives you a key to unlock your own heart.claim0.748
  The practical path: mastering the abstract structure enables the personal, vulnerable expression.
• The pin-jointed base mainly deals with one function and nearly ignores the other seven; it gives 100% weight to restraint of horizontal forces and zero to leaning or forming a place.claim0.747
  Critique of narrow functionalism, showing that true life balances all functions through centers.
• The act of shaking hands structurally instantiates local symmetry, deep interlock, boundary, alternating repetition, and not-separateness — explaining its felt powerclaim0.742
  Demonstrates that even bodily gestures carry the fifteen properties and their associated feeling
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.740
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• The process by which a person comes in touch with wholeness is linked to human growth, self-knowledge, and discovery of the true self.claim0.731
• We certainly feel different degrees of life in different human events; a handshake can be full of life or mechanical.claim0.728
  Extends the perception of life to social events.
• The gist of the process, what I call the formal or brutal process, lies in the use of very simple geometry, first introduced with force, after one makes sure that the inspiration has arisen from the place, and from the introduction, then, of just enough syncopation into the order, so that it truly fits the necessities of site and place and time, without doing violence to them.claim0.728
  Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence