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As an architect, Alexander has become convinced that the I is certainly real in buildings and must necessarily play a fundamental role in architecture.

Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.

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The I must be real, and if the physical picture of space and time requires modification to include the I, this modification would be a discovery of the first order.
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Alexander's scientific conjecture that his architectural theory implies a true modification of physics, analogous to Maxwell's discovery.

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Alexander claims there is a necessary connection between God and architecture that is, in part, empirically verifiable.claim0.878
Summary of Alexander's position in the 2016 article 'Making the Garden'.
For technologists, Alexander himself represents 'architecture': he is often the only architect they can name.claim0.856
Observation about Alexander's outsized symbolic role in software communities.
The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.825
The separation of design and construction prevents life.
Architects should understand Alexander's influence, programmers should critique it, and all should be suspicious of the monolithic white male architect trope.claim0.824
Steenson's normative stance on how different groups should engage with Alexander.
Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structureclaim0.815
Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.
According to Kent Beck, Alexander's work represents 'a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.'claim0.812
Interpretation from software engineering that Steenson highlights.
I disagree with Alexander. I do not believe that there is an empirically verifiable notion of order, beauty, architecture, and god. I believe that such an idea is dangerous.claim0.809
The work of Alexander was more radical than Arts and Crafts architects generally admitted.claim0.807
Assertion attributed to John Hanson about the radical nature of Alexander's approach.