mechanical perfection

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• Machine-Perfect Finishconcept0.802
  The smooth industrial surface finish that 20th-century construction norms have accustomed builders to; Alexander argues the slight roughness of styrofoam-formed concrete is positively life-like.
• The attention needed to achieve mechanical perfection drives out the possibility of paying attention to real perfection or adaptation in the centers.claim0.799
  The two goals conflict.
• Perfectionismframework0.742
  The theory of welfare that the sole good is the development and exercise of essential capacities (nature fulfilment).
• mechanical view of natureconcept0.742
  The 19th-20th century scientific view that nature is a value-free mechanism, contrasted with Alexander's living-structure perspective.
• Precision as Mechanismconcept0.736
• The morphology of a living world will, in the end, be that which can only be created by grace, radiant and comfortable, and beautifully ordinary.claim0.704
• The creation of morphological novelty, biological invention, artistic creation, architectural invention ... may all be understood as products of a relatively simple process of intensifying existing latent centers.claim0.702
  Claim that the emergence of new forms, often considered mysterious, is explainable through repeated intensification of latent structure.
• Modernismconcept0.702
  A 20th-century architectural movement whose form languages are considered too crude to create living structure.