Most present-day architects like talking about construction but are afraid of construction tools, and architectural education prevents students from gaining construction experience.

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• Professional architectural training never emphasizes that students should genuinely like what they are doing.claim0.803
  A structural critique of architectural education: pleasing oneself is not part of the professional discipline taught.
• Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structureclaim0.798
  Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.
• A generation of young architects was trained to be virtually unable to understand a life-creating production process.claim0.792
  Educational failure.
• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.790
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.
• The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.787
  The separation of design and construction prevents life.
• Professional architecture of the 20th century has paid too little attention to the complex, subtle structure that only living processes create, leading to environments that rob millions of common sense.claim0.786
  Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.784
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processesclaim0.780
  Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.