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What function could there be at the center that is important enough to make the building have a series of levels in this fashion?

Practical question about the difficulty of creating strong centers in modern houses where traditional centers (fire, marriage bed, table) no longer have emotional power

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Chapter 5: Fifteen Fundamental Properties
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The chapter that catalogs and analyzes the fifteen recurrent geometric properties found in systems that have life, connecting them to the deeper theory of centers and wholeness

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The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.789
The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
All functions, when working well in a building, are associated with living centersclaim0.789
Foundational claim linking the theory of centers to functional analysis of buildings
At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.789
Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
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 lifeclaim0.781
Derived from the farmhouse kitchen case study in section 9
Each building element in a living structure must itself be a powerful center - a living structure in itself.claim0.775
Elements must have life individually to contribute to the whole.
The task of building is to produce a field of centers which makes itself completeclaim0.773
Defines the ultimate aim of building, providing the framework for understanding ornament.
A building has too many variables; we cannot get each aspect right unless it is possible to work out one aspect at a time, step by step.claim0.770
Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.767