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.

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• When centers are being created, a high proportion of them are locally symmetrical; living process is, in part, a process of creating local symmetries.claim0.843
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.816
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.808
  Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
• The main job of any task of creating centers is always to melt away the divisions between things, unifying space through interlocking centers.claim0.808
  Central insight from the tile design narrative, applicable to all center-making.
• 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.claim0.807
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• 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.claim0.803
• The formation of centers is guided by generic patterns which play the role of genes.claim0.802
  Analogy to biology, placing pattern languages as the genetic code for living built environments.
• If we start with a geometrical attitude in which we try to make a field of centers everywhere, this establishes a kind of seed-bed for practical functions.claim0.802
  Generalisation that geometric life creates the best conditions for functional success.