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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.

Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.

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Scissors truss tension straight member carried almost no tension; major tension went around arch itself
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Detailed review of forces disproved the initial assumption that a straight tension tie was essential.

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Good engineering structure follows, directly or indirectly, from the use of living process.
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Core claim of the chapter, supported by multiple examples and findings.

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Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.843
Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
A structure is truly generated, and perceived as having life, only when it has unfolded from a nice, beautiful sequence of differentiations.claim0.835
The most profound claim of the chapter: the niceness of the sequence is directly perceptible in the built form and is the ultimate source of living quality.
The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.833
The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
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.claim0.830
Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
When architectural structure is an unfolded one — created by repeated application of living processes — then what comes from it is a world where people are able to feel happy, free, and themselves.claim0.828
Main thesis linking living structure to human happiness.
At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.827
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
What we get from such a process is a system of centers which is elaborated by other centers, in which each center is connected upward, downward, and sideways to myriad other centers, in which the centers bolster and intensify one another. What we get, then, is a particular kind of structure in which all the centers—gradually—take on this encrusted, dense, structured character of being made of other centers.claim0.825
Description of the resulting living structure.
The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.824
A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.