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It is inherently impossible to make a successful building by mass production or prefabrication without possibility of modification.

Necessary minute adaptations cannot be achieved with standardized components.

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How Living Process Generates The Process Of Construction
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Chapter 15 of Vol. 3, arguing that the living quality of buildings depends on a process of making that allows continuous feedback and adaptation.

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It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.856
Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
The architecture of the past century served the inherently machine-like production process that is incapable of creating life.claim0.819
General historical verdict.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.813
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
If we were nevertheless trying to get our buildings conceived, designed, and built by the social processes which currently exist - the buildings would still inevitably break life and could not have life.hypothesis0.812
Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
No building is ever really complete – inhabitants' requirements change, environment changes. Repair should lose sense of 'incorrectness' and become redesign opportunity.concept0.808
Alexander's foundational insight about iterative system improvement that motivates the piecemeal growth approach.
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.claim0.806
Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
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.hypothesis0.800
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
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.claim0.796
Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.