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In the 20th century there has been something almost like a taboo against seeing the I, or true beauty, or God.

Historical diagnosis: modern architects and designers systematically avoided true beauty because it struck a nerve they could not tolerate.

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True beauty is the quality of being in touch with the I. A structure with true beauty is something in which we cannot avoid seeing God.
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Definition linking true beauty to the visibility of the transcendent self or divine in a made thing.
20th-century design vocabulary asserted that structures should be 'interesting,' 'fantastic,' 'exhilarating'—anything but truly beautiful.
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The claim that 'beautiful' has unalterable meaning and was systematically replaced by lesser aesthetic terms in modern discourse.

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In the 20th century there were violent taboos in the architectural community against building anything from C_living.claim0.766
In the 20th century, images became divorced from reality; photographs of buildings in magazines became more important than the actual buildings themselves.claim0.763
Role of media images.
The existence of this fact is missing from our general way of understanding the world, and modern society has been built on conceptions at odds with it.claim0.755
Critique of modern worldview's blindness to objective life.
There is not one singular, verifiable system of beauty, or architecture, or god, and I fear what would happen if there were.claim0.747
Steenson's direct refutation of Alexander's late-life position on empirically verifiable order; articulated in context of 2020 authoritarianism and Black Lives Matter.
The pursuit of wholeness, pure and simple, was at odds with virtually every institutional and social reality of the 20th century.claim0.747
Alexander's summary of his forty-year experience that acting for wholeness inevitably brought him into conflict with existing processes.
After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.744
Historical shift.
The making of a living world cannot be separated from each person's search for the true self.claim0.744
The enigmatic conclusion that the most personal, inward search yields the most public, functional harmony.
Twentieth‑century thinking has made us careless so that we do not recognize this deeper structure as more profound and do not know how to create it.claim0.743
Blames modern education and design culture for losing the ability to generate living environments.