This cannot be done by an additive process. It can only be done — as a practical matter — by trying to cover the whole plan as accurately as possible with a nearly regular grid, squeezed, distorted just enough to cover the peculiarities and necessities of plan.

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• Instead of using plans, designs, and so on, I shall argue that we MUST instead use generative processes.claim0.778
  The central argumentative claim of Book 2, positioned against conventional design.
• At every step, the process does its utmost to enhance the structure of the whole, and shapes its parts to make this enhancement happen.claim0.775
  Central normative statement of the living process; defines the correct unfolding.
• Simple, intentionally rough paper and cardboard models that can be rapidly torn, cut, and patched provide a practical way to evolve design through feedback.claim0.773
  Proposed practical method for achieving step-by-step feedback in design.
• 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.claim0.771
  Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
• In general, the geometry will be created by differentiation, not by addition or accretion; the parts are given their dimensions by differentiating operations within the spatial shell.claim0.767
  A formal principle of the living process that uniqueness emerges from successive differentiation.
• 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.claim0.760
  Summarizes the brutal process as force-first geometry, then syncopated adaptation to fit context without violence
• We hypothesize that it is possible to invent high-technology versions of smooth unfolding processes so buildings can be specified cheaply while being uniquely adapted to each conditionhypothesis0.757
  Alexander's programmatic hypothesis framing the 21st-century construction research agenda.
• In typical apartment buildings, the plan is treated as fixed and not subject to correction, preventing sensible adaptation and resulting in unloved spaces.claim0.757
  Critique of apartment design process.