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Future living architecture may use concrete, glass, steel, aluminum, plastics, fibers, fiber cements, mud, sand, and polymers, but in ways unlike mechanical repetition if these materials can produce beautifully fitted parts

Alexander's open-ended hypothesis about the material palette of 21st-century living architecture.

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Architecture of the 21st Century
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Alexander's projected future architecture using ultramodern materials and process-based techniques to achieve living structure unlike 20th-century mechanical repetition.

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Achieving living architecture will require primarily process-based methods that use high technology to give processes not components, creating sophisticated elements fast and cheaply while fitting local circumstanceclaim0.785
Alexander's core prescriptive claim for 21st-century construction technology.
Using green materials is not the secret of living architecture; the essential thing is the capacity of materials to form living structure in the complex geometric senseclaim0.775
Alexander's central critique of sustainability discourse as insufficient for architectural life.
To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.771
The need for a new kind of process in society.
Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processesclaim0.766
Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.
The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.765
Universal claim about all living architecture.
The schemata created by modern and modernistic architectural efforts in the 20th century are too crude to carry the load of creating living geometry.claim0.757
Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.750
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
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.hypothesis0.749
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.