A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.

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• No building has real life unless it is deeply and robustly functional.claim0.897
  Opening assertion setting the stage for unified ornament-function.
• To make a building that lives, it must be allowed to unfold step by step in real time, both before and during construction; we cannot fake it.claim0.855
  The necessity of real-time unfolding for authentic living architecture.
• If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.849
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.840
  A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
• A building's life is not a matter of style but of substance: the presence of living centers.claim0.830
  Distinction between superficial style and deep structure.
• If we were nevertheless trying to get our buildings conceived, designed, and built by the social processes which currently exist - the buildings would still inevitably break life and could not have life.hypothesis0.823
  Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.822
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.
• Life, as it occurs in buildings or in works of art, can be measured, but only by a method that relies on the degree of development or enlightenment of the observer.claim0.821
  The fundamental methodological conclusion of the chapter.