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claim:all-eleven-principles-are-of-course-embodiments-of-the-fifteen-transformationsAll eleven principles are, of course, embodiments of the fifteen transformations.
States that the teaching principles directly instantiate the underpinning theory.
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- Chapter 16: Form Language And StyleintroducesThe chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.
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- Assertion that the fifteen specific transformation types form a complete palette for all structure-preserving differentiation.
- Asserts that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as elementary units for generating living form.
- Defines the role of the transformations in generating living structure.
- Strong assertion that the entire generative capacity of life in space reduces to repeated application of the fifteen transformations.
- Asserts that the chapter's sketches represent the necessary geometric character of unfolded buildings.
- Explains the seeming paradox that living process respects what is there yet generates novelty, without arbitrary insertion.
- Alexander's claim that living structure properties are not incidental but are the operative mechanisms of wholeness-preserving transformation