Christopher Alexander came to believe that patterns themselves are not enough to generate life in buildings. After many years of thinking, Christopher Alexander came up with the idea that any part of space is defined by centers. They are focal points in a larger unbroken whole.
It is important to remember that the centers are formed within the wholeness. Centers suffer from the same deficiency as patterns when viewed as building blocks of wholeness. The whole is not built by them. There is a deeper order from which the centers emerge.
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