Philosophy and construction must discipline each other: philosophy generating hypotheses precise enough to guide implementation, construction demanding the specificity that philosophy tends to defer

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• Is the way that we view design, planning, and construction—in all the spheres mentioned, ecosystems, buildings, communities, objects, computers and computer software—the right way to produce sufficient complexity, and does what we are doing have a chance of success?question0.791
  Opening rhetorical question that frames the problem of creating complexity.
• In a living process, design steps and construction steps must be interleaved and entangled; the 20th-century separation does enormous violence to living structure.claim0.778
  States that the sequential separation of design and construction is incompatible with unfolding, requiring a new form of process.
• If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.776
  Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.772
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Design and engineering knowledge are not reducible to scientific principles; operational principles are needed.claim0.771
  Polanyi's argument applied to software.
• What is needed to support individual acts of construction is a three-dimensional diagram of the actual shape of the needed space, more physical even than a model.claim0.770
  The core proposal for a new form of urban plan to guide piecemeal construction.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.768
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.765
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty