To learn how to create living structure in buildings, we had better start by looking at nature.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.849
• Living structure in buildings can only be GENERATED. It cannot be created by brute force from designs.claim0.839
  Core thesis of Book 2, stated at the transition to Part Two.
• In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.claim0.833
  The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.
• At each step, doing the simplest thing that can be done to intensify existing centers will produce living structure.hypothesis0.830
  Operational hypothesis equating simplicity of step with emergence of life.
• Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.828
• I doubt if we shall plumb the full extent to which a living structure is created until we have thoroughly explored and understood just what these ancient builders did, in what frame of mind they did it, and with what attitude.claim0.824
  A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.
• The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.823
  The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
• In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.821
  The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure