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What materials and building techniques are needed for construction of buildings in a living world?

The framing question of the entire chapter.

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Achieving living architecture will require primarily process-based methods that use high technology to give processes not components, creating sophisticated elements fast and cheaply while fitting local circumstance
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Alexander's core prescriptive claim for 21st-century construction technology.

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To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.794
The need for a new kind of process in society.
In order to achieve living structure, at a certain stage, it is necessary to seize hold of the building design and force it into an almost brutal, simple, massive geometric mold.claim0.793
The chapter's central thesis: brutal geometric imposition is a necessary phase in achieving living structure
To learn how to create living structure in buildings, we had better start by looking at nature.quote0.785
Alexander's programmatic statement linking his natural philosophy to his architectural agenda
The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.785
Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structureclaim0.780
Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.
Living structure in buildings can only be GENERATED. It cannot be created by brute force from designs.claim0.776
Core thesis of Book 2, stated at the transition to Part Two.
Such a process will not—in general—create living structure.claim0.775
What is the essence of the way to make a large building in the context of living process?question0.772
Central question the chapter aims to answer, posed at the start of the Great Hall discussion.