process, not design

The idea that the life of a building comes from the process of its creation, not from a preconceived design on paper.

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processes
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Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs

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Chapter 3: Structure-Preserving Transformations In Traditional Society
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The current paper, arguing that life in buildings arises from structure-preserving transformations, as exemplified in traditional societies.

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Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.831
It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.828
Emphasizes process over blueprint.
What PROCESS have you been designing for?question0.824
Question encouraging reflection on the underlying processes, rather than static structures, that restoration should target.
architectural processconcept0.817
The idea that social process must become truly architectural—i.e., morphogenetic, form-creating—to generate a living world.
Process Aestheticsconcept0.816
Core framework: aesthetics of activity from the perspective of the actor, including self-reflective experiences and perception of external world as part of activity.
The process to design for is not stability or predictability, but promoting natural processesclaim0.803
Key design philosophy of the talk, rejecting engineered stability in favor of dynamic, process-driven restoration.
Individual Processconcept0.801
A locally complete, self-contained creative process that creates a single center from conception to completion, in a continuous sequence.
Process Artconcept0.799
Artifacts designed to bring about process-aesthetic experiences; primary aesthetic properties emerge in the enactor's activity.