14 Morphological invariants created when making goes according to a living process

All dimensions and shapes of every element are perfectly adjusted.
In a repeating series of details, the individual elements expand and contract according to location in the series. There are not perfect constancies of dimension.
General dimensions are repeating. But because elements are placed exactly right, dimensions of location are also unpredictable and variable.
Perfection, in the sense of repetitive exactness, accuracy of line and so on, is not sought. Rather, the perfection that is sought is accuracy of feeling in the centers that are made.
In a technical sense, everything is specially cut and shaped as if it were hand-craft. In practice, though, this hand-craft will often be done by ultramodern, high-technology techniques which allow making in a new technical sense, because our 21st-century techniques allow details to be fitted exactly to their positions in the whole through some new form of almost “biological” process.
Even if a building is made with the most sophisticated high-process technology, in every inch its character will always feel hand-made.
The love of the material will be visible in every inch.

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