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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.

Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.

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Chapter 2: How Living Processes Establish Our Belonging To The World
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In this chapter, Alexander describes belonging, its dependence on living processes and structure, and provides photographic and painted examples of the blissful state in ordinary life.

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The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.827
Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
The architecture of the past century served the inherently machine-like production process that is incapable of creating life.claim0.826
General historical verdict.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.822
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
The schemata created by modern and modernistic architectural efforts in the 20th century are too crude to carry the load of creating living geometry.claim0.818
Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.
Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.813
A generation of young architects was trained to be virtually unable to understand a life-creating production process.claim0.808
Educational failure.
Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structureclaim0.805
Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.
Buildings of recent decades (1940-90) are noticeably missing in these fifteen properties, and this is intentional due to 20th-century architectural theoriesclaim0.799
Historical-critical claim that modern architecture consciously abandoned understanding and use of the fifteen properties, making contemporary buildings poor illustrations of living structure