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Nearly all great traditional buildings contain such successful structure, making us believe that this differentiating process must have been a predictable and reliable process.

Uses traditional architecture as evidence that the generative sequence is historically reliable

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The Fuggerei (Augsburg)
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16th-century workers' housing in Augsburg; rigid rows of houses adapted to site boundaries and orchards; historical example of brutal geometry successfully fitted to land

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Successful traditional built environments were always generated by culture-specific pattern languages that ensured variety, beauty, and fitness through combinatorial use of generic centersfinding0.814
Historical generalization undergirding the prescriptive theory of pattern languages
Traditional builders paid attention to the feeling of the emerging structure, allowing them to stay within the guidelines of the transforming whole.claim0.802
A successful large building will always show subtle syncopation of regularity combined with gentle accommodation to the land, with a continuous range of scales down to the most intimate details.claim0.801
Summary of the geometric invariants that result from living process in large buildings.
In buildings, especially, the success of the process will be judged by the extent to which these middle-range entities appear with their own distinct symmetries, with their own definite and distinct force as strong centers.claim0.801
Proposes middle-range entity quality as the criterion for judging the success of a building process
It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.800
Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.797
Historical shift.
ALL the well-ordered complex systems we know in the world, all those anyway that we view as highly successful, are GENERATED structures, not fabricated structures.claim0.793
The central thesis of the chapter; supported by examples from nature, artifacts, and human settlements.
Such middle-range order appears, without fail, in biological structures of all sorts, again making it virtually certain that there must be a predictable process which can create such order, and which does create it reliably in biological cases.claim0.793
Claims middle-range order is universal in biology and implies a reliable generative process exists