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"The most sophisticated building techniques of the future will be those where each operation modifies, without backtracking, the product of the previous operations. Such processes generate well-adapted variety, cheaply and easily."

Alexander's predictive claim about optimal future construction methodology.

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The most sophisticated building techniques of the future will be those where each operation modifies without backtracking the product of the previous operations, generating well-adapted variety cheaply and easily without complex drawings
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Alexander's predictive claim about the character of optimal future construction methods.

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In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.810
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.799
The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.
We hypothesize that it is possible to invent high-technology versions of smooth unfolding processes so buildings can be specified cheaply while being uniquely adapted to each conditionhypothesis0.796
Alexander's programmatic hypothesis framing the 21st-century construction research agenda.
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.claim0.793
Historical shift.
In traditional societies, building processes often preserved and extended wholeness by following natural processes closely.claim0.787
Historical claim about traditional versus modern building.
It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.786
Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
If a building is made by a process that allows fine adaptation through feedback, it will have life; if built from fixed drawings, it will not.hypothesis0.786
Predictive conditional summarizing the chapter's argument.
In any living process, the next step which is most structure-enhancing is that step which most intensifies the feeling of the emerging whole.claim0.785