Stud walls allow adaptation but do not encourage the creation of living centers

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• You cannot have a living building without adaptation.claim0.777
  Direct extension of the life-adaptation requirement to buildings.
• It is the material substance of walls, floors, steps, windows, and roof — and the configuration of how they are made — which governs whether living centers can emerge and fine structure adaptation can occurclaim0.771
  Alexander's foundational claim linking material technique directly to the possibility of living architecture.
• Even a simple doorstep can only be made into a living center by standing inside the wholeness of the place and adapting it step by step in the actual situation.claim0.764
  The smallest architectural act requires in-situ dynamic adaptation.
• 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.hypothesis0.760
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• A living process only rarely creates living centers from scratch; it must use pre-established generic centers — patterns — encoding successful adaptationsclaim0.757
  Grounded in Holland's schemata theory and the biological gene analogy
• The creation of living centers in the world increases the I in those who have contact with it.claim0.747
• The CAD-based system does not encourage the use of structure-preserving transformations. It does not encourage the creation of living centers.claim0.746
• The intricate and beautiful structure of living centers comes about naturally, and most of the time without effort, as a result of the repeated application of structure-preserving transformations to the wholeness which exists.claim0.745
  Central interpretive claim of the chapter, asserting that living structure is an effortless natural outcome of structure-preserving transformations.