Sketches and computer drawings are over-specific and contain too much arbitrary information, hindering a genuine living process.

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• A drawing is not a good medium for a process requiring serious and mature reflection one item at a timeclaim0.785
  Part of the critique of charettes: drawings encourage quick, playful contributions and cannot handle complex trade-offs
• It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.773
  Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
• These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.765
  The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.
• Student drawings lack beings because students do not truly realize that putting a structure of beautiful being-like shapes into the thing is what makes it live.claim0.762
  Diagnosis of why even well-meaning students fail to create living structure.
• The feeling of such a floor cannot be accurately judged from a drawing made in advance.claim0.760
  Justification for physical mockups and on-site design adaptation.
• The sketches show precisely the kinds of forms which must in all likelihood follow from any program in which these fifteen transformations are progressively unfolded.claim0.760
  Asserts that the chapter's sketches represent the necessary geometric character of unfolded buildings.
• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.quote0.753
  Einstein's assertion invoked to explain why BMR preserves accuracy while reducing complexity
• Matisse's drawing actions are dominated by concern for the overall balance, coherence, and form of the whole, not by particular details.claim0.748
  Observation used to illustrate the principle that great painters work from the whole.