Book 3 Cliff Notes

Last updated on March 25, 2021

Author’s note
- Freshness and deep adaptation — the class of living buildings
Preface
1. My intention in book 3
2. Repeated application of living process in city and in countryside
3. A historical example of a living process
4. Examples of life-creating processes from our era
5. The continuous flow of creation in a region of the world
6. Widely spread life-creating processes
7. Conclusion
1 belonging and not-belonging
1. 1 Who, today, can truly enjoy belonging to the earth?
2. 2 The uniqueness of individuals, families, and businesses
3. 3 The living room of society
4. 4 Interlock of private and public, and continuous spatial touching of the two
5. 5 The impact of living process on belonging
6. 6 An invariant morphology which will be generated by living process
2 our belonging to the world
1. 1 The link of human happiness with the environment
2. 2 Belonging and true comfort
3. 3 The fifteen properties
4. 4 Dependence of the blissful state of our existence on the most ordinary quality in our surroundings
5. 5 The sense of belonging
6. 6 More on the blissful state
7. 8 The true landscape of architecture
8. 9 Attaining the blissful state
9. 10 Paintings and photographs of the blissful state
10. 11 Geometrical consequences: structural effects of living process in the realm of belonging
11. 12 Conclusion
3 the hulls of public space
1. 1 The unfolding of public space
2. 2 Positive space
3. 3 How hulls of public space come naturally from structure-preserving transformations
4. 4 Shaped public space forming living centers
5. 5 The spine structure of the Eishin campus
6. 6 The hulls of public space for a community of families in Texas: unexpected centers in a piece of land
7. 7 Shaping the hulls for part of a new town in greater Frankfurt
8. 8 A new approach to urban space: first forming a three-dimensional plan of hulls
9. 9 Implementation
10. 10 Summary of the effects
11. 11 Morphological features of public space created by living processes
4 large public buildings
1. 1 How large buildings may be created by the fundamental process
2. 2 The Great Hall: a multitude of living centers
3. 3 Intimacy of design within the huge
4. 4 Mountain View Civic Center: differentiation of a large building as a jewel, made by successive transformations of the space where it exists
5. 5 Tokyo Forum: unfolding of a massive building
6. 6 Eurostar
7. 7 Introduction to discussion of process for a larger building
8. 8 Even in the biggest building, people must be the core. The building genuinely comes from the inspiration and deep feeling of the users
9. 9 The contracting problem
10. 10 Emergence of new multi-level contracts for large buildings
11. 11 The intricacy of detail in a living process — Memos on construction method
12. 12 Conceptual vision of a still larger process
13. 13 Setting up a design management construction organization for a 16 million building
14. 14 Conclusion — Geometric features which follow from the use of living process in the making of large buildings
5 the positive pattern of space and volume in three dimensions on the land
1. 1 The all-important relationship between buildings and the land
2. 2 Every building is placed and shaped to form a positive pattern of space
3. 3 A lock-and-key process
4. 4 The Millennium Church
5. 5 Emergence of complex space and volume on a small piece of land in California
6. 6 Building a five-story building in Tokyo to make harmonious space and volume
7. 7 Laying out a very large building complex: the Eishin Campus
8. 7a Completion of design and construction of the Eishin Campus
9. 8 A secondary structure-enhancing process which further forms the shape of spaces and volumes
10. 9 Emergence of building volumes in a more repetitive project
11. 10 The most vital step in any building process
12. 11 Remember that each building exists mainly to activate the land
6 positive space in engineering structure and geometry
1. 1 Beauty of structure and positive space
2. 2 Interlocking elements of mass and elements of space
3. 3 Positive space and positive structure — a three-dimensional carpet of space
4. 4 The seeming miracle: why beauty of space and mass generates good engineering structure
5. 5 Three-dimensional formation of positive and negative
6. 6 The great hall at Eishin
7. 7 A new kind of engineering design process based on finite element analysis
8. 8 Using the fundamental process to get the design of a concrete truss
9. 9 Going on with the unfolding process for the truss: finite element analysis
10. 10 Each step uses the fundamental process to unfold an earlier wholeness
11. 11 Appropriate structural order for a large apartment building
12. 12 Morphological invariants that are likely to appear in an engineering structure generated by living process
7 the character of gardens
1. 1 The partial, built shell that lets a garden grow
2. 2 A sequence of adaptive acts
3. 3 Thus the living aspect of gardens comes about, necessarily, as a result of unfolding in time
4. 4 It unfolds directly from people’s ordinary instincts
5. 5 A comment from the heart of zen
6. 6 The built support that natural gardens need
7. 7 Twenty percent of the construction money for outdoor structures
8. 8 Positive space in gardens
9. 9 Preserve the structure of what is there
10. 10 Small and large centers contribute to unfolding
11. 11 Centers in your own garden, created by your desire
12. 12 The wild and cultivated garden
13. 13 Splendor in ordinariness
14. 14 I don’t care kind of caring
15. 15 The structure likely to appear in gardens shaped by living process
8 forming a collective vision of a neighborhood
1. 1 A shared vision
2. 2 The psychiatrists of Letterman Hospital
3. 3 Unfolding as a source of unanimity
4. 4 Start of a collective vision in Fort Lauderdale
5. 5 Design charettes
6. 6 A collective vision growing in Chikusadai
7. 7 The visionary process
8. 8 A collective vision achieved at Eishin
9. 9 We created: they created
10. 10 The vital need for a collective vision
11. 11 The archetypal character of the collective vision which will inevitably emerge
12. 12 Bologna
13. 13 The special character of each community created by the collective language they have made
9 the reconstruction of an urban neighborhood
1. 1 A growing city
2. 2 Addressing the problem of blight
3. 3 A new kind of zoning law, helping to generate neighborhood structure through successive transformations
4. 4 A profound contrast between two very different forms
5. 5 The pattern of yellow, green, gray, and red
6. 6 What should be the pattern of yellow, green, gray, and red?
7. 7 Making a start in the existing Progresso neighborhood
8. 8 Density interactions and the density threshold
9. 9 The key idea: within an optimum density framework, center-enhancing transformations of the neighborhood
10. 10 Yellow: growing the pedestrian hull
11. 11 Gray: Splitting lots and multiplication of smaller-scale individual buildings
12. 12 Green: the growth of positive green space
13. 13 Red: cars are given last place
14. 14 Overview of all four processes together
15. 15 Structure-preserving unfolding of the four-fold pattern of yellow, green, gray, and red
16. 16 Repairing blight
17. 17 Highly complex order — the key invariants in a neighborhood
10 “belonging” in high-density housing
1. 1 A question
2. 2 A vital comment about people’s wishes
3. 3 A direct sequence of logical steps leading from people’s wishes to a useful geometric form
4. 4 Shiratori: a new form of high-density housing at 80 families per acre: detailed explanation
5. 5 Chikusasai: 40 families per acre
6. 6 Evaluation of the Shiratori and Chikusadai plans
7. 7 A possible world-wide archetype
8. 8 Some invariants for high-density housing
11 necessary further dynamics of any neighborhood which comes to life
1. Important note: simulation and reality
2. 1 The stuff of life
3. 2 The essential reason for dynamic thinking
4. 3 Santa Rosa de Cabal, Columbia
5. 4 Feedback, diagnosis and repair
6. 5 Laying out a larger neighborhood by a dynamic process: a fully generated plan
7. 6 Moshav Shorashim in the Galilee
8. 7 The Fort Mason bench
9. 8 Doing work together
10. 9 Some morphological invariants that will typically be generated by the fundamental process in any evolving neighborhood
12 the uniqueness of people’s individual worlds
1. 1 Every place will be unique
2. 2 Three houses by telephone
3. 3 A house for Geoffrey and Linda Gioja
4. 4 A house for Jim and Sylvia Heisey
5. 5 A house for Mike and Patricia Goddu
6. 6 Overview of the unfolding process for the three houses
7. 7 A paradox about uniqueness
8. 8 Mass-housing with unique apartments
9. 9 A factory and its individual workspaces
10. 10 Office layout process
11. 11 Mass-housing where each family make their own house plan for themselves
12. 12 How symmetries and asymmetries get created
13. 13 Morphological invariants likely to appear in individual realms when generated by living process
13 the character of rooms
1. A few invariants of rooms that have been shaped by living process
2. 1 What makes a good room?
3. 2 Position: How living process may be used to shape a room through its position
4. 3 Position: Starting with the most important room
5. 4 Position: The living room of the Medlock House
6. 5 The main centers of a room: internal elements which create the room’s life
7. 6 The main centers of the carpet gallery at the San Francisco Museum
8. 7 Fine structure which determines the internal coherence and feeling in the room
9. 8 Fine structure: the Berryessa staircase
10. 9 Tranquility
11. 10 Tranquility even in the huge
14 construction elements as living centers
1. 1 The most decisive, most telling aspect
2. 2 Physical substance itself
3. 3 Microstructure of a building
4. 4 Microstructure as a necessary part of all physical organization
5. 5 Mirrors of the self in every building detail
6. 6 Unfolding building details from the fundamental process
7. 7 For living elements like these, a new form of making is required
8. 8 A letter to the reader
9. 9 Some invariants which will emerge when the fundamental process is repeatedly applied to building elements
15 all building as making
1. 1 A personal note
2. 2 Making
3. 3 Technical definition of “making”
4. 4 The most basic feature of living structure
5. 5 The technology of making
6. 6 The social philosophy of making
7. 7 The nearest tenth of an inch
8. 8 Detailed shape and size of capitals at Back-of-the Moon
9. 9 Money and contracts
10. 10 Working on integrated wholes
11. 11 Matura as an example
12. 12 Wabi-to-sabi: the balance of rough and smooth
13. 13 Summary
14. 14 Morphological invariants created when making goes according to a living process
16 continuous invention of new materials and techniques
1. 1 The search for new materials
2. 2 Green materials and adaptation
3. 3 What matters is that we have techniques of construction which help us make living centers
4. 4 An innovation for village construction — stacked tile vaults
5. 5 Cheap and beautiful ways of forming concrete
6. 5a Wood and concrete combinations
7. 6 Heavy wood construction
8. 7 New forms of brick and block construction
9. 8 Sophisticated may mean advanced or it may mean primitive in appearance but advanced in content
10. 9 Smooth unfolding of construction
11. 10 The paradigm of smooth unfolding as a target for every construction technique
12. 11 Monocoque construction — new forms of hollow, composite, wood and plywood columns and beams
13. 12 Concrete monocoque construction — a currently emerging structural technique
14. 13 Features of new building methods that are likely to appear if the technique is genuinely able to support a living process
17 the production of giant projects
1. 1 How may we approach truly gigantic construction projects
2. 2 High-speed adaptive production: technical problems that must be solved
3. 3 Slowly created harmony in a massive project: the example of the Athens Megatron
4. 4 The core of the solution: a combination of large numbers, high speed, minute adaptations, craft, and cost control
5. 5 Adaptive design emerging within the whole
6. 6 The water-jet cutter
7. 7 Prefabrication of marble on fiberglass mats followed by on-site modification and context-determined design adjustment
8. 8 Repetition and variation
9. 9 Human beings and technology: personal feeling interacts with fast, efficient, high technology to create a unified artistic and adaptive process
10. 10 Fabrication of luminous glass ceilings
11. 11 Extension of ultra-modern techniques to all forms of innovation and construction
18 ornament as part of all unfolding
1. 1 Ornament as products of unfolding
2. 2 Ornament as detail which emerges directly from the process of making
3. 3 Black-and-white marble floors and surfaces
4. 4 Making a colored, ornamented, floor
5. 5 Other kinds of ornament
6. 6 Hand-glazed tilework
7. 7 Making lifelike animals and plants in the fabric of the building
8. 8 Simplicity of ornamental human figures
9. 9 Structural qualities created by the fundamental process in all ornament
10. 10 In a living building, everything is ultimately ornament
11. 11 Everything is joyful ornament
19 color which unfolds from the configuration
1. 1 The unfolding which produces inner light
2. 2 The painted kitchen
3. 3 Paint and color materials
4. 4 The surprising nature of the color that unfolds
5. 5 The blue of the Kaiser house
6. 6 Another case of the surprising nature of color that unfolds
7. 7 How can it really be that color and design come from unfolding?
8. 8 Color is so effortless
9. 9 Morphological invariants which appear as living color unfolds
20 summation: the morphology of living architecture
1. 1 Emergence of an archetypal core
2. 2 A collection of examples
3. 3 Process and geometry: the origin of archetypal form
4. 4 Centers and symmetries
5. 5 The feeling-symmetry principle within these examples
6. 6 The archetype underlying all
7. 7 Weak archetype, strong archetype
8. 8 A last remark
appendix on number
- How many possible living structures are there?
conclusion: the world created and transformed
1. 1 Architecture as the continuation and completion of the land: how continuous unfolding of wholeness makes and remakes the earth
2. 2 All urban building viewed as part of nature
3. 3 The world originating from its people
4. 4 Our birthright

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