We never allowed the simple-minded pure efficiency argument to dictate, since this would have killed the structure.

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• Simplistic criteria like provenance (factory or evolution) and anatomy (homology to humans) were never appropriate; they were heuristics suitable only for past limitations.claim0.795
  Rejection of traditional provenance/anatomy criteria.
• There is nothing except the living structure of the world, and this living structure is all we need to reason with.claim0.779
  Radical assertion that function reduces to living structure, eliminating the need for external goals.
• The issue is not whether the process will produce living structure if done faithfully — it will — but whether the maker has the stamina and will to keep rejecting versions that lack life.claim0.778
  Alexander's claim that the limiting factor in creating living structure is not method but the maker's persistence.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.772
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.768
  Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
• Modern society has almost lost the ability to sustain an unfolding process like nature due to willful, rule-bound schemata out of touch with real wholeness.claim0.765
  Diagnosis of modernity.
• The images or schemata that guide actions may be wholeness preserving or not, and modern architects often paid no attention to existing wholeness.claim0.763
  Moral evaluation of modern architecture.
• The creation of living structure cannot be done in any other way.claim0.762