Conceptual buildings, not based on an unfolding process, do not fit practical human needs and stand awkwardly unrelated to their surroundings.

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• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.818
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• The forms of these buildings do not allow such an unfolding to occur; they patently do not.claim0.811
  Critique of Renzo Piano's and Daniel Libeskind's buildings as incapable of unfolding.
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.805
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.800
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• A building which has profound feeling will also solve seemingly unrelated functional aspects.claim0.798
• The lack of unfolding in the Japanese building complex's ground floor and inclined planes shows that they simply appeared from a whim, not from sensible adaptation.claim0.794
  Japanese building critique.
• It is theoretically impossible to build a successful building from a set of drawings specifying every detail.claim0.793
  Because feedback is needed to shape elements during construction.
• In the best cases, the building form will be interwoven with nature itself, seeming extremely ordinary, not like the work of an architect's hands.claim0.791