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The process of design is an empirical matter: which step has the deepest feeling can be discovered by experiment in the real place or in simulations.

Defines the experimental, empirical nature of deciding next steps.

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Chapter 9: **The Whole
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This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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Emphasizes process over blueprint.
In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.815
Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
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The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.
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Key design philosophy of the talk, rejecting engineered stability in favor of dynamic, process-driven restoration.
We evaluate the relative life of a process by making predictions based on thought-experiments or simulations.claim0.806
If the feeling is genuine and does arise out of the site itself, then it must be thought of as an absolute which later stages of design and construction must only strengthen, deepen.hypothesis0.804
A conditional rule for the unfolding process.
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.claim0.798
Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.795
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.