You cannot have a living building without adaptation.

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• 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.hypothesis0.833
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.820
  Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.811
• Living structure in buildings can only be GENERATED. It cannot be created by brute force from designs.claim0.807
  Core thesis of Book 2, stated at the transition to Part Two.
• To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.802
  The need for a new kind of process in society.
• Buildings and objects with living structure enlarge our capacity for relatedness; those without deaden it, even in nature.claim0.801
  Practical consequence for architecture and urbanism.
• 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.hypothesis0.800
  Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
• The process of creating a living building requires not merely redefining functions, but rearranging and redefining the centers of function — which then opens the door to a new comfortable lifeclaim0.800
  Derived from the farmhouse kitchen case study in section 9