The critical difference between successful living processes and unsuccessful modern architectural processes is the absence of feedback.

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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.claim0.821
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• 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.hypothesis0.801
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.795
• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.794
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.793
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.792
  The need for a new kind of process in society.
• Virtually all shocking blunders of modern and postmodern architecture turned out bad because they were unexamined experimentally—proposals were not compared by feeling to find the step with the deepest life.claim0.792
  Historical/diagnostic claim linking bad architecture to failure of empirical comparison.
• The architecture of the past century served the inherently machine-like production process that is incapable of creating life.claim0.791
  General historical verdict.