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claim:technologists-love-alexander-and-architects-hate-himTechnologists love Alexander and architects hate him.
Central assertion about the divergent receptions of Alexander's work; Steenson has been asking this for over a decade.
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- Central organizing question Steenson has posed for over a decade; reveals fundamental disagreement about meaning of 'architecture' itself.
- Observation about Alexander's outsized symbolic role in software communities.
- I defend Alexander against architects who have barely read his books but hold disdain for him.claim0.820Part of her defense of Alexander's serious consideration.
- Steenson's normative stance on how different groups should engage with Alexander.
- The work of Alexander was more radical than Arts and Crafts architects generally admitted.claim0.765Assertion attributed to John Hanson about the radical nature of Alexander's approach.
- Diagnosis of the core conflict behind the divergent receptions.
- Steenson's caution against uncritical adoption of Alexander's work in technology.
- Alexander's personal scientific and professional conclusion stated in the Mid-Book Appendix.