The gist of the process, what I call the formal or brutal process, lies in the use of very simple geometry, first introduced with force, after one makes sure that the inspiration has arisen from the place, and from the introduction, then, of just enough syncopation into the order, so that it truly fits the necessities of site and place and time, without doing violence to them.

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• We hypothesize that a similar 'brutal' and purely geometric process always occurs somewhere in other kinds of unfolding that generate living order — in poetry, dance, social structure, planning, and family relationships.hypothesis0.857
  Extends the brutal geometry thesis beyond architecture into all creative and social domains; acknowledged as not yet confirmed with certainty
• Thinking about creation in this way, brutal and too-decisive though it may seem, is the process by which the guts of a thing, its valuable force, is made.claim0.824
  Final claim: the brutal geometric process is what gives anything its essential force and value
• In every case, the process is straightforward, simple, and above all free: it allows the reality of the situation, the human needs, human joys, to find expression.claim0.818
  A summary generalization from the examples about the nature of living processes.
• A living process is always natural, similar to the best kind of natural process, but it goes deeper and includes additional centers that naive natural process may miss.claim0.805
  Positions living process as an refined version of innate human creativity, not an artificial imposition.
• This geometric substance that I call the brutal order comes, in fact, from the need to allow a certain regular rhythm of members to arise within an irregular envelope, because it is fitted to irregular circumstances.claim0.805
  Defines brutal order as the intersection of regular structural rhythm with irregular contextual fitting
• The essence of the process is that it generates coherent, yet quite unpredictable structure, simply by applying a few simple rules to a piece of land and its natural idiosyncracies.quote0.800
  Alexander's distillation of why the dynamic process produces living results that top-down design cannot.
• This is focused on beauty. It is brutal, only because, to do it, we must forget our responsibilities and the subtleties of site and function, and enter the play of pure forms with as much emphasis on feeling, art, and structure alone as we can.claim0.798
  Defines brutality as the temporary forgetting of practical responsibilities to focus purely on structural beauty
• These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.798
  The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.