In typical apartment buildings, the plan is treated as fixed and not subject to correction, preventing sensible adaptation and resulting in unloved spaces.

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• 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.hypothesis0.808
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• No building is ever really complete – inhabitants' requirements change, environment changes. Repair should lose sense of 'incorrectness' and become redesign opportunity.concept0.803
  Alexander's foundational insight about iterative system improvement that motivates the piecemeal growth approach.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.801
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.claim0.790
  A design principle that rejects plan-driven layout.
• Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.788
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• You cannot have a living building without adaptation.claim0.784
  Direct extension of the life-adaptation requirement to buildings.
• In good architecture and good city-building, step-by-step adaptation was historically always present as a necessary core.claim0.784
  Historical claim that all successful building environments used stepwise adaptation.
• A building has too many variables; we cannot get each aspect right unless it is possible to work out one aspect at a time, step by step.claim0.781
  Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.