method
active
method:integrated-construction-team-approachIntegrated construction team approach
Combining multiple trades (forms, steel, concrete, tile) into a single team to create complete wholes.
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Concepts (1)
concept
- WholenessusesAlexander's core concept rejecting the idea that a whole consists of parts; instead, a whole makes its parts (called 'centers').
Chapters (1)
chapter
- 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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- Alexander's proposed approach using high technology to provide processes (not components) that create sophisticated elements cheaply while fitting local circumstance.
- Long sequence covering design and construction under a flexible management contract; can be broken into smaller snippet sequences.
- Alexander's central thesis: architects must actively invent new materials and methods rather than passively assemble available components.
- The 20th-century divorce of design from making, which prevents ornament from arising naturally.
- A sequence for contract and management that allows a house to be built organically within a fixed budget, under architect's direct control.
- Key property enabling organized collective action; mechanism by which parts coordinate into functional wholes.
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