Making is distinguished by operations that are congruent with the wholes that are being formed, unlike construction by fragmented trades.

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• A whole makes its parts, rather than the idea that a whole consists of parts.claim0.797
  Alexander's foundational assertion inverting conventional understanding of composition; central to understanding centers and the Fifteen Properties.
• making (technical definition)concept0.785
  A process of construction where design and building are interlinked, using continuous feedback from the emerging whole to shape each element uniquely.
• If construction is organized around creating complete wholes by integrated teams, the building will achieve more life than with fragmented trades.hypothesis0.782
  Testable prediction from the integrated wholes argument.
• Composition is non-trivial, i.e. a whole cannot be decomposed meaningfully.claim0.767
  Defining property of Schrödinger compositional theory
• Creativity is not inserting entirely new structure but revealing what is already there, serving the wholeness.claim0.764
  Reconception of creativity as attentive revelation rather than arbitrary invention.
• The act of division, creating upper and lower zones, determining proportions of what lies below and what lies above, makes an intervention in the potential field that is as profound as any other act of creation.claim0.762
  Raises spatial division to a foundational creative gesture.
• Thinking about creation in this way, brutal and too-decisive though it may seem, is the process by which the guts of a thing, its valuable force, is made.claim0.758
  Final claim: the brutal geometric process is what gives anything its essential force and value
• "The most sophisticated building techniques of the future will be those where each operation modifies, without backtracking, the product of the previous operations. Such processes generate well-adapted variety, cheaply and easily."quote0.757
  Alexander's predictive claim about optimal future construction methodology.