A successful unfolding process requires a special kind of contract with fixed price, rough plan, continuous modifications without change orders, and open books.

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• An unfolding process, if faithfully applied, will dissolve any arbitrary initial image because reality and common sense will override it.claim0.818
  Key principle about images vs. unfolding.
• The process of unfolding is always governed by the repeated application of the fundamental operation thousands and thousands of times.claim0.818
  Claim about the universality and pervasiveness of the center-making process at all scales and phases.
• The essence of successful unfolding is that form develops step by step, preserving wholeness and rooted in common sense; the order of steps is critical.claim0.814
  Positive description of unfolding.
• We hypothesize that it is possible to invent high-technology versions of smooth unfolding processes so buildings can be specified cheaply while being uniquely adapted to each conditionhypothesis0.812
  Alexander's programmatic hypothesis framing the 21st-century construction research agenda.
• Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.807
  Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.
• The unassuming, ordinary, touching quality can only be created by a living process, by unfolding.claim0.793
  Strong exclusivity claim: only unfolding produces genuine ordinariness that touches people.
• The process of unfolding and the fundamental process follow from this pleasing of oneself, as night follows day.claim0.792
  Alexander claims Book 2's unfolding process is a consequence of people learning to please themselves.
• It is impossible, in principle, for an unfolding process to produce the works of Botta, Mies, or Le Corbusier; their works are therefore arbitrary and lifeless.claim0.791
  Strong in-principle claim against modern icons.