The shortest statement of what one is trying to do in architecture is to obtain the field of centers by introducing one center at a time into the whole, so as to extend the whole and preserve structure.

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• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.807
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• 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.claim0.803
• The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.claim0.798
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The fifteen properties, the field of centers, and the wholeness thoroughly and completely determine the way that buildings work.claim0.796
  Universality claim that the same geometric properties govern both beauty and function.
• A thing which has the field of centers always does make a person near it feel more whole.claim0.793
• The objective oneness of space which I have identified as the field of centers is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.792
  The startling conclusion that the deep structure of space is simultaneously the most intimate, vulnerable, personal thing.
• The main job of any task of creating centers is always to melt away the divisions between things, unifying space through interlocking centers.claim0.791
  Central insight from the tile design narrative, applicable to all center-making.
• I finally recognized that it is the field of centers which is primary, not these fifteen properties, and that the properties are simply aspects of the field which help us to understand concretely how the field works.quote0.789
  Meta-theoretical revelation about the ontological priority of the field of centers over the fifteen properties