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To achieve living structure, one must prune and re-arrange until every single part, every part of every part, and every part between parts are all living centers.

Maxim for the demanding effort of genuinely center-based design.

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At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.
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Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.

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At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.859
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
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.claim0.840
Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.830
The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.829
The process of creating a living building requires not merely redefining functions, but rearranging and redefining the centers of function — which then opens the door to a new comfortable lifeclaim0.829
Derived from the farmhouse kitchen case study in section 9
The key thing about all LIVING sequences is that they generate centers in an order which lets each center unfold naturally from the centers laid down before.claim0.828
Defines the essential structural property that a sequence must have to be living.
In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.824
The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
My claim in Book 2 is that 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.quote0.823
Central thesis statement of the chapter, encapsulating the core idea that living structure arises effortlessly from structure-preserving transformations.