Anonymous buildings fail in three ways: (1) no individual belonging in private dwellings, (2) no public belonging in the sham public world, and (3) the two worlds are not in contact.

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• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.745
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• The structures needed for our belonging — both private and public — can be generated almost without effort, autonomously, by any truly living process allowed to exist in society.claim0.742
  Optimistic assertion that living process effortlessly brings forth the spatial conditions for belonging
• If we were nevertheless trying to get our buildings conceived, designed, and built by the social processes which currently exist - the buildings would still inevitably break life and could not have life.hypothesis0.734
  Prediction about the incompatibility of modern processes with life.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.734
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• Given two versions of a building, A and B, can we tell empirically which one has more life, in a way which allows people to reach agreement — that is to say, objectively?question0.733
  Opening question of the chapter that the entire methodological argument is designed to answer
• To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.728
  Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
• It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.727
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• The individuality is taken away. The public space is destroyed.claim0.723
  Critique of conventional large-scale redevelopment.