If we were nevertheless trying to get our buildings conceived, designed, and built by the social processes which currently exist - the buildings would still inevitably break life and could not have life.

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• 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.hypothesis0.846
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.826
• If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.825
  Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
• A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.823
  Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.822
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
• Social process must necessarily be architectural process, and that architectural process must necessarily be life-creating.claim0.821
• The structures where life occurs just cannot be made in any other way.quote0.821
  Categorical assertion about the necessity of the living process.
• Any part of the world we build will have life if it is created by structure-preserving transformations, and will not have life if it is not created by structure-preserving transformations.claim0.819
  The central thesis of the chapter.