This process is harmful, and has a strong tendency to work against creation of living structure in building design.

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• Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.837
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.835
• 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.claim0.832
  Historical shift.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.825
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• In a living process, design steps and construction steps must be interleaved and entangled; the 20th-century separation does enormous violence to living structure.claim0.824
  States that the sequential separation of design and construction is incompatible with unfolding, requiring a new form of process.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.822
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• 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.claim0.821
  Beauty and geometry are the talisman by which a living process is known.
• Living structure and the process of creating it has a positive effect on the process of creation, similar to the Mozart effect.claim0.815