Architecture cannot be good so long as we try to do it within a mechanical conception of matter.

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• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.813
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The architecture of the past century served the inherently machine-like production process that is incapable of creating life.claim0.802
  General historical verdict.
• Is the way that we view design, planning, and construction—in all the spheres mentioned, ecosystems, buildings, communities, objects, computers and computer software—the right way to produce sufficient complexity, and does what we are doing have a chance of success?question0.801
  Opening rhetorical question that frames the problem of creating complexity.
• If we were nevertheless trying to get our buildings conceived, designed, and built by the social processes which currently exist - the buildings would still inevitably break life and could not have life.hypothesis0.801
  Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
• 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.quote0.800
  Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
• It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.795
  Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
• Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.793
• It is inherently impossible to make a successful building by mass production or prefabrication without possibility of modification.claim0.793
  Necessary minute adaptations cannot be achieved with standardized components.