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Modern mass-produced commercial tiles are often almost obscene and at odds with creating a field of centers

Their modular standard colors and patterns conflict with the sensitivity required for a living field of centers.

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Mass produced tiles could not have achieved the fine-tuned adaptation to the whole that hand-made tiles achieved.claim0.819
Argument for craft-based, feedback-rich fabrication processes in architecture.
In hundreds of examples, our ability to see the field of centers and to produce the centers indicated geometrically tends to produce an object which works better.claim0.752
Empirical generalisation from built examples, with no counterexample found.
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Emphasizes that creating living structure requires dedicated focus.
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Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
The schemata created by modern and modernistic architectural efforts in the 20th century are too crude to carry the load of creating living geometry.claim0.744
Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.
When the field of centers is authentic, it is always personal; empty structure without personal feeling is structurally misjudgedclaim0.738
Links structural authenticity to personal feeling as a necessary co-occurrence
The field of centers cannot be created as a by-product of some existing process; it comes about only when the entire process is organized and concentrated on creating a living field.claim0.738
Focus on anything else yields something else.
The modern world we build, because its construction is driven by our attitudes about money, production, design, building, and planning, breaks from smooth unfolding at almost every stage.claim0.730
Critique of contemporary building processes.