The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.

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• It is my contention that the shapes of a truly living architecture… can only be of this nature. They must have been created step by step—dynamically—both while they were being thought out and while they were being made.quote0.940
  Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.851
• Living structure in buildings can only be GENERATED. It cannot be created by brute force from designs.claim0.842
  Core thesis of Book 2, stated at the transition to Part Two.
• If it is a living process, it will create beautiful geometric structure. If it does not create beautiful structure, it cannot truly be a living process.claim0.835
  Beauty and geometry are the talisman by which a living process is known.
• To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.834
  The need for a new kind of process in society.
• The existence of living structure, as defined in The Nature of Order, requires modifications in our physical picture of the world, not only in the picture we have of architecture.claim0.833
  The closing claim of the chapter's mid-book appendix, asserting that the theory of centers has implications for physics.
• When architectural structure is an unfolded one — created by repeated application of living processes — then what comes from it is a world where people are able to feel happy, free, and themselves.claim0.832
  Main thesis linking living structure to human happiness.
• Nature always produces living structure because it follows a process of unfolding wholeness; human designers can create non-living structure by violating this process.claim0.831
  Core distinction between natural and designed configurations, explaining why properties are ubiquitous in nature but rare in bad design.