Generic rules for making centers or “making life enjoyable”

In any sane process which is able to make living structure in buildings, giving proper attention to the functional basis of the building — to what people need, and want, and desire, in order to make themselves comfortable — is paramount. For a building it is the essence of its worth.

The way that functional information enters the building process, cannot be well understood without a grasp of the geometrical aspects of the formative process. Even the question of what the building does, and how well it does it, can be understood properly only in the context of geometry.

#book/The Nature of Order/2 The process of creating life/13 Patterns#