The task of building is to produce a field of centers which makes itself complete

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• The main job of any task of creating centers is always to melt away the divisions between things, unifying space through interlocking centers.claim0.835
  Central insight from the tile design narrative, applicable to all center-making.
• The task of architecture—building—directly impacts the wholeness of the world, increasing or destroying living structure on a planetary scale.claim0.822
  Result of the new view: architecture becomes a vital ecological and existential issue.
• The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.816
  Focus on anything else yields something else.
• The main job the buildings have is to form the space.claim0.802
  Key principle that buildings are instruments to create positive outdoor space, not objects in themselves.
• 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.claim0.801
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.799
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• The fifteen properties, the field of centers, and the wholeness thoroughly and completely determine the way that buildings work.claim0.793
  Universality claim that the same geometric properties govern both beauty and function.
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.792
  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.