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The form languages of traditional societies helped people to work in living process and allowed them to form truthfully differentiated buildings in harmony with the whole.

Argument that traditional societies had effective form languages for living structure.

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Chapter 16: Form Language And Style
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The chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.

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A form language able to produce life must be a system of transformations which allows living centers to be created, one by one.claim0.811
Defines the requirement for an effective form language.
In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.805
Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
Unless we have a form language which supports the necessities of living structure, then living structure is simply out of our reach.quote0.804
Emphasizes the necessity of a form language for achieving living structure.
To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.783
The need for a new kind of process in society.
Successful traditional built environments were always generated by culture-specific pattern languages that ensured variety, beauty, and fitness through combinatorial use of generic centersfinding0.777
Historical generalization undergirding the prescriptive theory of pattern languages
Unless we have a form language that supports the necessities of living structure, then living structure is simply out of our reach.claim0.773
Central thesis of the chapter: form language is a prerequisite for living structure.
The apparent similarity of form language between Piano's cultural center and traditional huts is almost a trick—hardly more than an illusion.claim0.766
Argues that Piano's organic-looking building fails to capture the deep unfolded geometry of the traditional huts.
We may find inspiration in these modern processes since they give us practical guides for imagining the kinds of process which can realistically create living structure in our world.claim0.758
The pragmatic hope drawn from the collection of examples.