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How, in a living process, do we take the first steps of design so that a beautiful, coherent whole begins to take shape?

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The best canvas for the evolution of form is the inner eye, the mind's eye, guided by a word picture.
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Advocacy for a fluid, non-graphic medium early in design.

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Chapter 9: **The Whole
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This chapter argues that every step in a living process must enhance the whole, using examples from drawing, zoning, St. Mark's Square, canyon design, and painting.

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In a living design process, every step must be concerned with the whole and must make the feeling of the whole more profound.claim0.859
Restatement of the central principle in the context of the Claremont Canyon example.
In a living process, every step is done in such a way as to increase the beauty—the life—of the whole.quote0.843
Encapsulates the chapter's main message.
The living structure emerges, slowly, step by step, and as the process goes forward step by step there is continuous feedback which allows the process to guide the system towards greater wholeness, and coherence, and adaptation.quote0.831
Concise definition of the core dynamic of living process.
If design and construction processes are living processes, each part will become itself, adapted to local conditions and individual people.claim0.830
Core assertion that living process translates unique place and person into unique form.
The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.825
Universal claim about all living architecture.
It is my contention that the shapes of a truly living architecture… can only be of this nature. They must have been created step by step—dynamically—both while they were being thought out and while they were being made.quote0.825
Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
In each step of a living process one must be able to feel, ahead of time, the feeling which will later exist in the finished object, without yet knowing its form in detail.claim0.819
Every living process must necessarily be an adaptive, step-by-step process that creates unity by adapting the structure into harmony with what exists.claim0.817