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Good engineering structure follows, directly or indirectly, from the use of living process.

Core claim of the chapter, supported by multiple examples and findings.

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Findings (1)

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Finite element analysis of first curved truss showed huge shears at base and excessive moments in curves
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First step of finite element analysis on a curved tracery truss revealed bad structural behavior.

Claims (2)

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The very same positive space which creates a truss's beauty also creates its structural stability and good structural behavior.
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Direct connection between aesthetic quality and engineering performance.
The structure which is created by a feeling for centers and by a conscious and deliberate aim towards the feeling of the whole, will often turn out to be an efficient structure.
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Reiterated empirical observation from twenty years of practice.

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When architectural structure is an unfolded one — created by repeated application of living processes — then what comes from it is a world where people are able to feel happy, free, and themselves.claim0.817
Main thesis linking living structure to human happiness.
Living structure comes into being effortlessly simply as a result of following the sequence.claim0.815
Alexander asserts that when the generative sequence is correctly ordered, the form unfolds without struggle—a central thesis of the chapter.
Living structure is enormously susceptible to minor changes, and accuracy of detail is necessary for success.claim0.812
Warning that the recursion of centers requires extreme precision.
Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.810
Good and functional structures achieve their quality from a conscious effort by the maker to make the geometric field of centers.claim0.809
Challenges the 'form follows function' dogma; asserts that creators aimed at beauty first.
In a living process, design steps and construction steps must be interleaved and entangled; the 20th-century separation does enormous violence to living structure.claim0.808
States that the sequential separation of design and construction is incompatible with unfolding, requiring a new form of process.
The structure we know as living structure is just that kind of structure which has unfolded smoothly and naturally, arising step by step from what exists, preserving the structure of what exists.claim0.808
Defines living structure as the product of a truthful unfolding process that respects and preserves existing wholeness.
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.805