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claim:the-geometry-of-living-structure-is-markedly-different-in-kind-from-the-geometry-of-design-done-on-a-drawing-board-or-on-a-computerThe geometry of living structure is markedly different in kind from the geometry of design done on a drawing board or on a computer.
Fundamental distinction between generated and static geometry.
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- Chapter 8: Step-By-Step AdaptationintroducesThe chapter argues that all living processes must proceed step by step with feedback, and that modern architecture fails because it lacks this core.
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- Core thesis of Book 2, stated at the transition to Part Two.
- Beauty and geometry are the talisman by which a living process is known.
- Second motivating question for the appendix.
- Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.
- Emphasizes the non-pictorial, process-dependent nature of living order.
- First motivating question for the appendix on classes.
- Universal claim about all living architecture.