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concept:center-making-actionCenter-Making Action
The continuous process of creating and strengthening living centers as the most essential aspect of unfolding.
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Concepts (1)
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- center-making processrelated_toA process whose steps create and intensify centers, as seen in traditional building and natural growth.
Chapters (1)
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- The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.
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- Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
- Changing configuration to sample environment differently; minimizes free energy.
- Transformations that repair damaged centers and create new living centers, following the fundamental process.
- The fundamental question about the nature of centers, addressed through recursive definition.
- The recursive composition principle, key to understanding wholeness.
- The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.
- Overarching conceptual scheme from The Nature of Order where a whole makes its parts, which are called centers, and centers intensify each other.
- Question posed after describing the plenum, answered by the window metaphor.