What did traditional builders do to make their actions structure-enhancing?

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• In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.776
  Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
• If the builder consistently uses the emerging feeling of the whole as the origin of his insight, then this is tantamount to a natural process of structure-preserving unfolding.hypothesis0.767
• I doubt if we shall plumb the full extent to which a living structure is created until we have thoroughly explored and understood just what these ancient builders did, in what frame of mind they did it, and with what attitude.claim0.764
  A statement of incompleteness: our understanding misses the inner state of the builders, which is essential.
• Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processesclaim0.756
  Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.
• Structure-enhancingconcept0.756
  The aspect of transformation that deepens and develops the whole by bringing latent centers to life.
• I believe that a builder who makes everything a hierarchy of beings in that primitive religious sense will, with no further instruction, succeed in making life in buildings.hypothesis0.750
  Predictive claim about the sufficiency of the being-rule for creating life.
• The form languages of traditional societies helped people to work in living process and allowed them to form truthfully differentiated buildings in harmony with the whole.claim0.749
  Argument that traditional societies had effective form languages for living structure.
• After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.747
  Historical shift.