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Can we hold cost constant and yet construct large works in a way which is profound, personal, detailed, and loving — yet still respectful of these necessary conditions that are nowadays imposed by the modern era?

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It is possible to conceive new forms of on-site fabrication which allow every part to be just right, without upsetting enormously high-speed production.
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Core claim that high-speed adaptive production can reconcile craft quality with modern speed.

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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?question0.800
The central practical question the chapter sets out to answer.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.781
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
The modern world we build, because its construction is driven by our attitudes about money, production, design, building, and planning, breaks from smooth unfolding at almost every stage.claim0.777
Critique of contemporary building processes.
Our present forms of planning, design, construction, and production are deeply flawed because they do not include step-by-step adaptation and cannot in principle do so as they are.claim0.776
Sweeping indictment of current production systems.
For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.claim0.770
Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.
In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.769
Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
For some purposes, it will be convenient to settle for specifications in terms of fulfilling internal commitments, and sometimes the public character of promises will have to be taken into account in the specifications.claim0.767
Trade-off between internal and public obligations.
The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.765