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If construction is organized around creating complete wholes by integrated teams, the building will achieve more life than with fragmented trades.

Testable prediction from the integrated wholes argument.

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How Living Process Generates The Process Of Construction
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Chapter 15 of Vol. 3, arguing that the living quality of buildings depends on a process of making that allows continuous feedback and adaptation.

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The 20th-century fragmentation of construction into trades and subcontracts makes the appearance of life in the building virtually impossible.claim0.844
Operations are not congruent with wholes.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.810
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.809
Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
In a living process, design steps and construction steps must be interleaved and entangled; the 20th-century separation does enormous violence to living structure.claim0.806
States that the sequential separation of design and construction is incompatible with unfolding, requiring a new form of process.
To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.794
Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.790
Central premise of the chapter.
If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.789
Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
The idea that a building becomes more 'organic' if it has a more complex form, even when based on notions of the interior organization, is almost always wrong.claim0.789
Rejects the common assumption that organic architecture requires complex exterior forms