For Friedman, the traditional design circuit has two informational bottlenecks: the architect’s limited ability to manipulate information and the impossibility of adapting the static building for users’ needs.

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• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.768
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.768
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• The four concept criteria (motivation, no redundancy, no overloading, uniformity) are neither necessary nor sufficient but can explain design flaws.claim0.762
  Acknowledging the heuristic nature of the criteria.
• The bottleneck was never what to write—three slots are 80% done. The missing step is shipping, not research.claim0.760
• Modern architectural design typically creates a schematic drawing containing hundreds of untested decisions, with no step-by-step testing against real life.claim0.759
  Critique of current design practice: hundreds of variables frozen at once.
• The core of the modern design movement—striving for originality, newness, breaking with tradition—was a structure-destroying force that denied unfolding.claim0.750
  Fundamental critique of modernism.
• What makes design so very difficult for most people is that they do not use a generative sequence; instead they try to design all at once, in a jumble.claim0.747
  Diagnosis of why conventional design methods produce struggle and chaos, contrasted with the ease of proper sequence.
• Postmodern architectural centers suffer from four defects: lack of smaller centers, image-like copies, failure to emerge from wholeness, and failure to help form larger centers.claim0.746
  Framework for critiquing postmodern design, exemplified by Stirling's Berlin library.