A cleaning process goes on in parallel with differentiating, keeping the structure spare and simple so that there is always room for more relationships; this is the only way profound, well-adapted structure can be built.

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• Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.812
• Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.811
  Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.801
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• In a living process, design steps and construction steps must be interleaved and entangled; the 20th-century separation does enormous violence to living structure.claim0.800
  States that the sequential separation of design and construction is incompatible with unfolding, requiring a new form of process.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.799
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.798
  Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.
• The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.795
  Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
• The gist of the process, what I call the formal or brutal process, lies in the use of very simple geometry, first introduced with force, after one makes sure that the inspiration has arisen from the place, and from the introduction, then, of just enough syncopation into the order, so that it truly fits the necessities of site and place and time, without doing violence to them.claim0.791
  Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence