Certain configurations of centers have such organizing force that they create entirely new levels of intensity within the centers themselves and utterly transmute the material character of space.

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• Centers become most intense when the centers they are made of help each other.claim0.830
  The condition for maximum life in a center.
• Centers within a whole intensify each other, resulting in a profound and lively whole.claim0.829
  Alexander's core mechanism explaining how the Fifteen Properties function to create living wholes.
• The more centers are packed and overlapped, each helping and intensifying the others, the more an object comes to life.claim0.827
  The formula for profound life, as seen in the Temple of Hera.
• The intuitive placing of members to create a field of centers produces results in which the forces are beautifully distributedclaim0.825
  Alexander's claim that aesthetic/structural intuition guided by living-center logic yields mechanically efficient designs, confirmed by FEA.
• The objective oneness of space which I have identified as the field of centers is also entirely personal in nature.claim0.817
  The startling conclusion that the deep structure of space is simultaneously the most intimate, vulnerable, personal thing.
• Space becomes more deeply functional and well-organized as it begins to resemble more deeply the human person; life in a center means the space begins to resemble the human selfclaim0.817
  Extraordinary structural claim: functional organization converges on resemblance to the human self
• 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.claim0.816
  Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.
• The beauty and force of any building arises always, and in its entirety, from the deep functional nature of the centers that have been created.claim0.816
  Core principle tying beauty directly to deeply functional centers.