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Achieving living architecture will require primarily process-based methods that use high technology to give processes not components, creating sophisticated elements fast and cheaply while fitting local circumstance

Alexander's core prescriptive claim for 21st-century construction technology.

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Gujarat village school built in 1961 for 5000 rupees (less than 1000 dollars) using guna-tile vaults
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Demonstrates that invented construction technique can achieve living structure at extremely low cost.

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How can we achieve fine tuning and adaptation without labor-intensive handcraft methods typical of ages gone by?
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The central engineering challenge Alexander poses given the modern labor-material ratio.
What materials and building techniques are needed for construction of buildings in a living world?
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The framing question of the entire chapter.

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Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structure
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Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.

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"I would argue, that it will require, primarily, process-based methods — methods which use high technology to give us processes, not components, and processes which can create sophisticated elements and members, fast and cheaply, yet fitting local circumstance and the eye of the person doing the work."
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Alexander's core prescriptive statement about the nature of future construction technology for living architecture.

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To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.852
The need for a new kind of process in society.
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.809
A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.804
Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
A living process is a step-by-step adaptive process that goes forward in small increments, with opportunity for feedback and correction at every step.claim0.798
Operational definition of the incremental, self-correcting nature of living process.
A living process is any adaptive process which generates living structure, step by step, through structure-preserving transformations.claim0.795
Core definition that anchors the whole chapter; asserts the necessary and sufficient structure of life-creating activity in the built world.
In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.793
The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.793
Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
I believe such a system of living processes can be described precisely, can be made practical, and can be implemented.claim0.792
Alexander's optimistic programmatic statement for a worldwide generative system.