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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.

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living structure
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A built or natural form that possesses life, arising from morphogenetic adaptation, as opposed to blueprint designs.

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The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.822
Universal claim about all living architecture.
The forms of these buildings do not allow such an unfolding to occur; they patently do not.claim0.821
Critique of Renzo Piano's and Daniel Libeskind's buildings as incapable of unfolding.
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.quote0.807
Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.806
Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.802
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
What is it like actually to do it? What is it like to make a building, or part of a building, which has the being nature, in an ordinary action?question0.800
The opening question of the chapter that frames the entire practical inquiry into forging living centers.
To learn how to create living structure in buildings, we had better start by looking at nature.quote0.799
Alexander's programmatic statement linking his natural philosophy to his architectural agenda
The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.799
The separation of design and construction prevents life.