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In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.

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Structure-Preserving Transformations
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Chapter 2 of Volume 2 of The Nature of Order, introducing structure-preserving transformations as the mechanism by which living structure arises naturally through unfolding wholeness.

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In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.857
Central premise of the chapter.
If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.832
Modern society has almost lost the ability to sustain an unfolding process like nature due to willful, rule-bound schemata out of touch with real wholeness.claim0.831
Diagnosis of modernity.
If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.828
Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.827
Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
If the evolution of the natural world follows a step-by-step process in which each step is structure-preserving, then the fifteen properties will appear more and more often, and the degree of life in the wholeness will increase steadily.hypothesis0.822
Conditional statement linking smooth unfolding to the progressive emergence of the fifteen properties and increased life.
Human beings can violate the tendency to preserve wholeness either by acting disrespectfully toward it or by failing to perceive it accurately, which explains why modern buildings often lack living structure.claim0.818
Alexander's explanation for the 'temperamental' nature of the principle: it can be overridden by human agency
If a structure-preserving unfolding process is applied to existing cultural wholeness, it can non-arbitrarily derive the patterns that should generate present and future environmentshypothesis0.818
Alexander's retrospective hypothesis about how the pattern origin problem could have been solved twenty years earlier