Most of the possible building configurations are dead ones; they do not have life.

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• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.821
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• 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.hypothesis0.818
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.816
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• Living structure in buildings can only be GENERATED. It cannot be created by brute force from designs.claim0.815
  Core thesis of Book 2, stated at the transition to Part Two.
• Any part of the world we build will have life if it is created by structure-preserving transformations, and will not have life if it is not created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.815
  The central thesis of the chapter.
• Living configurations are hijackable in the good sense; manufactured systems are brittle to intervention.claim0.814
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.813
• 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.