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We will never be able to contribute to the world's horrible buildings if we make things that we like.

A strong corollary: true liking is incompatible with creating ugly, lifeless buildings.

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In order to create living structure, we must please ourselves.
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The central thesis of the chapter: pleasing yourself is the necessary and sufficient prescription for creating living structure.

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If we were nevertheless trying to get our buildings conceived, designed, and built by the social processes which currently exist - the buildings would still inevitably break life and could not have life.hypothesis0.793
Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
It is inherently impossible to make a successful building by mass production or prefabrication without possibility of modification.claim0.775
Necessary minute adaptations cannot be achieved with standardized components.
The modern world we build, because its construction is driven by our attitudes about money, production, design, building, and planning, breaks from smooth unfolding at almost every stage.claim0.774
Critique of contemporary building processes.
If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.774
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
No building is ever really complete – inhabitants' requirements change, environment changes. Repair should lose sense of 'incorrectness' and become redesign opportunity.concept0.770
Alexander's foundational insight about iterative system improvement that motivates the piecemeal growth approach.
A world built according to the present technical sustainability paradigm would be quite a horrible place.claim0.764
Direct critique that purely technological sustainability fails to create livable, beautiful environments.
It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.762
Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
Architecture cannot be good so long as we try to do it within a mechanical conception of matter.claim0.761
The impossibility of good architecture under mechanistic cosmology.