Why is it so difficult to form centers by differentiation?

Question addressed through the critique of Stirling's Berlin library.

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Postmodern architectural centers suffer from four defects: lack of smaller centers, image-like copies, failure to emerge from wholeness, and failure to help form larger centers.
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Framework for critiquing postmodern design, exemplified by Stirling's Berlin library.

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Why do centers arise at all? Why do centers become more intense or more alive?question0.780
Alexander's deeper formulation of the morphogenetic question in terms of his center-based framework
What reason might there be that the centers which appear in natural things, created by apparently mechanical processes of nature unfolding, would also resemble your self, and my self?question0.772
The deepest question driving Proposition 3: natural unfolding produces I-like centers, but why should a mathematical process care about self?
If we don't get the proportions exactly right we don't produce the centers and the whole thing falls apart.claim0.768
Tiny fractions of an inch define entirely different fields in nearby space.
The formation of centers is guided by generic patterns which play the role of genes.claim0.765
Analogy to biology, placing pattern languages as the genetic code for living built environments.
The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.764
Focus on anything else yields something else.
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.claim0.764
Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.
I believe that these properties arise because they are the principal ways in which centers can be strengthened by other centers.quote0.761
The central insight of the chapter: the fifteen properties all reduce to ways centers help each other
Centers are always made of other centers.quote0.760
Encapsulates the recursive nature of centers, the key to understanding wholeness.