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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

Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.

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

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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.claim0.827
The need for a new kind of process in society.
The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.822
The separation of design and construction prevents life.
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.claim0.819
The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.818
As an architect, Alexander has become convinced that the I is certainly real in buildings and must necessarily play a fundamental role in architecture.claim0.815
Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.
I doubt if we shall plumb the full extent to which a living structure is created until we have thoroughly explored and understood just what these ancient builders did, in what frame of mind they did it, and with what attitude.claim0.812
A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.
It is my contention that the shapes of a truly living architecture… can only be of this nature. They must have been created step by step—dynamically—both while they were being thought out and while they were being made.quote0.811
Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
To learn how to create living structure in buildings, we had better start by looking at nature.quote0.809
Alexander's programmatic statement linking his natural philosophy to his architectural agenda