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method:fixed-percentage-management-contract-with-open-booksFixed Percentage Management Contract with Open Books
The specific contract form used by Alexander since 1976, where price is fixed but design and funds are continuously re-distributed.
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Concepts (1)
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- Living processusesA generative process that repeatedly applies the fundamental process to create uniqueness and belonging in the environment
Chapters (1)
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- The working unit chapter that presents Alexander's method for generating large public buildings through living process, illustrated by six major projects.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- A contract type where the builder is paid a fixed management fee, with no profit beyond, and must deliver the best building within the given sum.
- Assertion that the living process is enabled by a specific contractual framework.
- A new contractual framework based on fixed price, open books, continuous design modification without change orders, and architect-builder discretion.
- Traditional contracts create conflicts of interest that prevent adaptation.
- Distinction between illocutionary and perlocutionary correctness.