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There are more bad next steps than good ones in a design process; typically perhaps 90-95 out of 100 possible next steps make the thing worse.

Quantitative intuition to justify radical skepticism toward early ideas.

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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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These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.811
The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.801
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.790
Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.785
Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
At every step in the 10,000 steps during the making of a building, I am always asking which of the things that I can do next is the one which will be the best gift to God.claim0.784
Description of the ongoing practical application of the gift-to-God question in making.
How, in a living process, do we take the first steps of design so that a beautiful, coherent whole begins to take shape?question0.775
Transition to the problem of design process.
Under these conditions, what is done next always has a natural and comfortable relation to what existed before: it has a similar structure and never violates the previously existing structure.claim0.772
Characteristic of a structure-preserving process.
The first few strokes in a design process carry within them the destiny of the rest.claim0.770
Highlights the crucial role of early, broad decisions.