The barriers themselves are physically ugly; they have a mechanical and unpleasant structure.

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• The rough humanity visible in these pictures, is no less modern than the titanium struts, glass, plastic sheets, and shimmering homogeneous facades we presently think of as modern.claim0.770
  Redefining 'modern' to include the kindlier morphology of living processes.
• The beings visible in the freeway and banal reality are not enough; they must be welded into a newer structure reconciling ugliness and beauty.claim0.755
  Alexander's vision for a modern architecture that honors the harsh world while creating fully living beings.
• The unity is not merely a unity in the surface, in the appearance of things — it is a unity of the most fundamental kind, which goes to the raw reality and which has, when it occurs, a highly unexpected, sometimes rambling, sometimes ferocious, sometimes friendly, even sometimes absurdly crude or comfortable character.claim0.745
  True unity is not about conventional beauty but about a raw, messy, everyday reality that resonates deeply.
• Architecture cannot be good so long as we try to do it within a mechanical conception of matter.claim0.744
  The impossibility of good architecture under mechanistic cosmology.
• The bank building's entrance, windows, and base were not unfolded from the site, rendering the building dysfunctional and ugly.claim0.743
  Further analysis of bank building.
• A thing which is well-made, and beautiful … will always be isomorphic to nothingness — it will have the same structure as emptiness.claim0.739
  The ultimate simplicity: living forms share the structure of the Void.
• Simple, intentionally rough paper and cardboard models that can be rapidly torn, cut, and patched provide a practical way to evolve design through feedback.claim0.739
  Proposed practical method for achieving step-by-step feedback in design.
• The ongoing rift between the mechanical-material picture of the world and our intuitions about self and spirit has destroyed our architecture and our sense of self-worth.claim0.738
  Central thesis linking cosmology to the spiritual barrenness of modern architecture.