2 The Great Hall: a multitude of living centers

What is the essence of the way to make a large building in the context of living process?

Everything you make must be a being. A “being” is another way of talking about a living center: it refers to the emotional aspect of a center when it is genuinely endowed with life. […] It seems to have a presence… something almost like a living being.

The presence of living centers throughout its fabric — requires forms of management, forms of contract administration, forms of construction, which allow the focus of the entire operation to be on this living quality, day-in, day-out, while the building is being made — while it is first conceived, while it is planned in detail, while it is being built.
Day-in, day-out, the construction of living centers is going forward, and the entire management process is focused and arranged to make this possible.

The effect of the living centers, both their profusion and their unity, which makes the largest whole a living center too, is to bring nourishing life — real life — to the community and to its individuals.

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