Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.

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• Living structure is enormously susceptible to minor changes, and accuracy of detail is necessary for success.claim0.833
  Warning that the recursion of centers requires extreme precision.
• After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.827
  Historical shift.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.826
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• This process is harmful, and has a strong tendency to work against creation of living structure in building design.claim0.825
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.819
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.819
• The kind of order that occurs in living structure has a complexity not usually describable by drawings or by architectural images.claim0.818
  Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.
• 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.hypothesis0.817
  Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.