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.

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• Order, beauty, and architecture are empirically verifiable and connected to Godclaim0.838
  Alexander's late-life position (c. 2016) claiming empirical verification of connection between Christian God and architectural order; Steenson explicitly rejects this as dangerous.
• As an architect, Alexander has become convinced that the I is certainly real in buildings and must necessarily play a fundamental role in architecture.claim0.809
  Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.
• There is not one singular, verifiable system of beauty, or architecture, or god, and I fear what would happen if there were.claim0.800
  Steenson's direct refutation of Alexander's late-life position on empirically verifiable order; articulated in context of 2020 authoritarianism and Black Lives Matter.
• Alexander rejects the whole idea of design methods as a subject of study, since it is absurd to separate the study of designing from the practice of design.claim0.782
  Steenson's paraphrased quote capturing Alexander's vehement rejection of the Design Methods Movement.
• I defend Alexander against architects who have barely read his books but hold disdain for him.claim0.768
  Part of her defense of Alexander's serious consideration.
• I warn programmers and UX designers not to worship Alexander, and to be critical about his universalizing theories.claim0.768
  Steenson's caution against uncritical adoption of Alexander's work in technology.
• For technologists, Alexander himself represents 'architecture': he is often the only architect they can name.claim0.766
  Observation about Alexander's outsized symbolic role in software communities.
• Why, in this moment, should anybody be writing about Christopher Alexander – a great white male with a heroic legacy who believes that the relationship between a Christian god and architecture can be empirically verified?question0.759
  A reflexive political question posed in July 2020 about the urgency of writing about Alexander.