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Mexicali interlocking block construction sequence generates unique adapted houses requiring no drawings

Demonstration of a complete smooth-unfolding high-tech construction system that achieves adaptation without conventional drawings.

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The most sophisticated building techniques of the future will be those where each operation modifies without backtracking the product of the previous operations, generating well-adapted variety cheaply and easily without complex drawings
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Alexander's predictive claim about the character of optimal future construction methods.

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