Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processes

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• I believe that a builder who makes everything a hierarchy of beings in that primitive religious sense will, with no further instruction, succeed in making life in buildings.hypothesis0.801
  Predictive claim about the sufficiency of the being-rule for creating life.
• In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.799
  Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
• "Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God."concept0.796
  Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.794
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• In the best cases, the building form will be interwoven with nature itself, seeming extremely ordinary, not like the work of an architect's hands.claim0.793
• It is only when engineering and architecture work together from the very first day that deep feeling or life can be attained in a building.claim0.790
  Assertion about the necessity of early engineering integration for living quality.
• Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structureclaim0.789
  Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.
• 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.claim0.788
  A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.