Strong Centers in all Levels of Scale

A building can only amount to something as a living thing when the various physical elements which appear in it are profound centers. The dominant feature of the process that is working correctly is that new centers are formed, and as they form, the space re-arranges itelf, not only locally, but also in the neighborhood of the newly forming center, and in the structure as a whole. Centers are always formed within the whole and by the whole, which requires constant focus on larger wholes, and the awareness that in each small act the process is contributing to the significant shape and organization of larger wholes within the structure. It is not only geometry and color that count when making a building; substance -- the materials a building is made from, and its detailing -- the way materials are put together, are the critical elements of a proper construction process in which building details contribute and enhance the big field of centers by creating centers at the scale of the very small. A field of centers evolves through a by step-by-step creation of strong centers, local symmetries and positive space.