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framework:process-based-construction-methodsProcess-Based Construction Methods
Alexander's proposed approach using high technology to provide processes (not components) that create sophisticated elements cheaply while fitting local circumstance.
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Methods (1)
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- Gunite (Shot Concrete)implementsA technique in which concrete is shot from a high-pressure hose with an accelerator; produces stiff, strong material that stays where placed without heavy formwork.
Concepts (1)
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- AdaptabilityimplementsThe capacity of materials and techniques to allow fine-tuning of dimensions and shape to each unique building condition; identified as the biggest issue in achieving living architecture.
Frameworks (1)
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- Smooth Unfolding of ConstructionimplementsA construction paradigm in which each operation naturally generates the next, producing unique adaptation without complex drawings.
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 16: How Living Process Should Inspire — Continuous Invention of New Materials and TechniquesintroducesThe working unit under analysis; Alexander argues for inventing new construction techniques that support living process and adaptation.
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- Long sequence covering design and construction under a flexible management contract; can be broken into smaller snippet sequences.
- Alexander's central thesis: architects must actively invent new materials and methods rather than passively assemble available components.
- Alexander's educational program teaching students to work with living processes in real construction projects, eventually closed by faculty opposition.
- Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
- The idea that the life of a building comes from the process of its creation, not from a preconceived design on paper.
- Represented by boxes in process theory; transformations that take systems as inputs/outputs
- The idea that social process must become truly architectural—i.e., morphogenetic, form-creating—to generate a living world.
- The idea that living structure emerges only through a sequence of small, structure-preserving moves, not by a single grand blueprint.