Instead of using plans, designs, and so on, I shall argue that we MUST instead use generative processes.

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• If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.794
  Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
• "I would argue, that it will require, primarily, process-based methods — methods which use high technology to give us processes, not components, and processes which can create sophisticated elements and members, fast and cheaply, yet fitting local circumstance and the eye of the person doing the work."quote0.787
  Alexander's core prescriptive statement about the nature of future construction technology for living architecture.
• Systems do not necessarily require master plans in order for development to begin; with proper meta-constructs, development can proceed in organic fashion.claim0.782
  Core thesis that architectural flexibility through meta-constructs enables incremental development without complete upfront design.
• The process to design for is not stability or predictability, but promoting natural processesclaim0.781
  Key design philosophy of the talk, rejecting engineered stability in favor of dynamic, process-driven restoration.
• Living processes are necessarily generative: large precedes small, and the whole creates the conditions for the part.claim0.781
• 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.claim0.778
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• This cannot be done by an additive process. It can only be done — as a practical matter — by trying to cover the whole plan as accurately as possible with a nearly regular grid, squeezed, distorted just enough to cover the peculiarities and necessities of plan.claim0.778
  Asserts the aperiodic grid as the only practical method for achieving regular structural bays within an irregular envelope
• Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.778