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"I would argue, that it will require, primarily, process-based methods — methods which use high technology to give us processes, not components, and processes which can create sophisticated elements and members, fast and cheaply, yet fitting local circumstance and the eye of the person doing the work."

Alexander's core prescriptive statement about the nature of future construction technology for living architecture.

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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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