The problem of structure-destroying transformations applies both to a building's relation to its surroundings and to the interior structure of the building itself.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Structure-preserving transformations govern the emergence of all structure in nature, not just in buildings and art.hypothesis0.846
  Alexander's conjecture extending the unfolding framework from architecture to natural phenomena generally.
• The existence of structure-destroying transformations as a social norm is linked to a breakdown in the perception of wholeness itself.claim0.837
  Causal link between perception and destruction.
• Structure-destroying transformationsconcept0.819
  Transformations that break the wholeness, creating jaggedness and preventing life; cannot reach the descendants of nothingness.
• A structure-preserving transformation both preserves existing structure and enhances the whole by developing latent centers.claim0.811
  Resolution of the apparent conflict between preserving and enhancing.
• When the rule of structure-preserving transformation is violated, a kind of cancer occurs and harm is done.claim0.804
  Metaphor for systemic damage.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.801
• An injection of new structure into a place can either respect and enhance the existing wholeness or violate and destroy it; this is an objective structural fact, not merely aesthetic preference.claim0.800
  Alexander's assertion that judgments about whether interventions preserve wholeness are structural and mathematical rather than subjective or romantic.
• After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.800
  Historical shift.