Truly successful programs can only be generated; and the way forward in the next decades will be through programs which are generated through unfolding, in some fashion comparable to what I have described for buildings.

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• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.812
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The goodness of the results is visible in the evident life and in the profound fact that unfolding generates an 'architecture'.claim0.795
  The dual validation of living process: life and the emergence of architectural order.
• We hypothesize that it is possible to invent high-technology versions of smooth unfolding processes so buildings can be specified cheaply while being uniquely adapted to each conditionhypothesis0.790
  Alexander's programmatic hypothesis framing the 21st-century construction research agenda.
• Is the way that we view design, planning, and construction—in all the spheres mentioned, ecosystems, buildings, communities, objects, computers and computer software—the right way to produce sufficient complexity, and does what we are doing have a chance of success?question0.788
  Opening rhetorical question that frames the problem of creating complexity.
• To make a building that lives, it must be allowed to unfold step by step in real time, both before and during construction; we cannot fake it.claim0.785
  The necessity of real-time unfolding for authentic living architecture.
• 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.hypothesis0.785
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• "The most sophisticated building techniques of the future will be those where each operation modifies, without backtracking, the product of the previous operations. Such processes generate well-adapted variety, cheaply and easily."quote0.785
  Alexander's predictive claim about optimal future construction methodology.
• 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 drawingsclaim0.783
  Alexander's predictive claim about the character of optimal future construction methods.