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It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.

Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.

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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 inherently impossible to make a successful building by mass production or prefabrication without possibility of modification.claim0.856
Necessary minute adaptations cannot be achieved with standardized components.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.826
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
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.claim0.824
Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
The most sophisticated building techniques of the future will be those where each operation modifies without backtracking the product of the previous operations, generating well-adapted variety cheaply and easily without complex drawingsclaim0.816
Alexander's predictive claim about the character of optimal future construction methods.
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.hypothesis0.813
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
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.
The building as a whole is virtually pure art.claim0.807
Claim that the pattern of solid and void, the creation of centers, is pure art, not a mixture of practical and art.
Modern architectural design typically creates a schematic drawing containing hundreds of untested decisions, with no step-by-step testing against real life.claim0.806
Critique of current design practice: hundreds of variables frozen at once.