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claim:professional-architectural-training-never-emphasizes-that-students-should-genuinely-like-what-they-are-doingProfessional architectural training never emphasizes that students should genuinely like what they are doing.
A structural critique of architectural education: pleasing oneself is not part of the professional discipline taught.
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- Alexander's diagnosis at the architecture jury; he led students to admit that they had never been taught to like what they make.
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- Observation about the culture of architecture that perpetuates the separation of design from making.
- Empirical outcome of the architecture jury intervention: students conceded that professional training had never emphasized liking what one makes.
- Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
- H4: Architecture doesn't matter, training does — architecture shows no significant association with koan scores.hypothesis0.765Confirmatory hypothesis supported at p=0.440 (NS)
- Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
- Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.
- A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.