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.

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• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.839
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.830
  Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
• Rules are wrongly formulated and processes are too rigid to allow adaptation; they cannot allow life to occur.claim0.814
  General statement that current rules and processes are fundamentally incompatible with living structure.
• Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.808
• In good architecture and good city-building, step-by-step adaptation was historically always present as a necessary core.claim0.807
  Historical claim that all successful building environments used stepwise adaptation.
• These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.806
  The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.
• It is inherently impossible to make a successful building by mass production or prefabrication without possibility of modification.claim0.806
  Necessary minute adaptations cannot be achieved with standardized components.
• 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.hypothesis0.804
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.