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 condition

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• The forms of these buildings do not allow such an unfolding to occur; they patently do not.claim0.829
  Critique of Renzo Piano's and Daniel Libeskind's buildings as incapable of unfolding.
• A successful unfolding process requires a special kind of contract with fixed price, rough plan, continuous modifications without change orders, and open books.claim0.812
  Assertion that the living process is enabled by a specific contractual framework.
• The process of unfolding is always governed by the repeated application of the fundamental operation thousands and thousands of times.claim0.806
  Claim about the universality and pervasiveness of the center-making process at all scales and phases.
• In nature, unfolding often consists of a process that establishes local symmetries one by one.claim0.806
  Connects biological morphogenesis to architectural process.
• 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.hypothesis0.803
  Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
• If a structure-preserving unfolding process is applied to existing cultural wholeness, it can non-arbitrarily derive the patterns that should generate present and future environmentshypothesis0.797
  Alexander's retrospective hypothesis about how the pattern origin problem could have been solved twenty years earlier
• How then — realistically — in the modern world can we get the subtle fine detail of adaptation, variation, and harmony which makes every component slightly different, and yet do it at the break-neck speed of modern giant projects and in the colossal quantities required for the largest projects?question0.797
  The central practical question the chapter sets out to answer.
• Fundamental change, even in high-profile rigid processes like banking, is possible and has been demonstrated in our time.claim0.797
  Conclusion drawn from Grameen Bank success that small sequences can change entrenched systems.