Use of natural building materials in restoration

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• Natural Building Materialsmethod0.838
  Use of locally available, untreated wood, rock, and plant material in restoration structures (principle 7).
• Natural Building Movementconcept0.774
  A trend toward using plentiful, cheap, and naturally available materials; Alexander acknowledges its positive aspects but critiques its archaic tendencies.
• Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processesclaim0.757
  Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.
• What materials and building techniques are needed for construction of buildings in a living world?question0.754
  The framing question of the entire chapter.
• In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.746
  Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
• In the best cases, the building form will be interwoven with nature itself, seeming extremely ordinary, not like the work of an architect's hands.claim0.746
• Nature can include buildings, and roads and bridges, together with rocks and soil.claim0.737
• 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.claim0.733
  Historical shift.