The closure of the Building Process program at UC Berkeley was caused by the incommensurability of the new paradigm with prevailing architectural assumptions.

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• Building Process program (UC Berkeley)framework0.805
  Alexander's educational program teaching students to work with living processes in real construction projects, eventually closed by faculty opposition.
• Berkeley architecture students admitted, after half an hour of discussion, that they did not genuinely like their own work in the ordinary sense.finding0.766
  Empirical outcome of the architecture jury intervention: students conceded that professional training had never emphasized liking what one makes.
• The critical difference between successful living processes and unsuccessful modern architectural processes is the absence of feedback.claim0.763
  Summary of the root cause of lifelessness in modern architecture.
• Berkeley architecture students did not genuinely like their own buildings in the ordinary sense that one likes a hamburger or a rose.claim0.751
  Alexander's diagnosis at the architecture jury; he led students to admit that they had never been taught to like what they make.
• Compartmentalization and refusal to allow processes to unfold in the right order had negative impact on the shape, form, cost, and life of major buildings.claim0.745
  Summary of the Mary Rose Museum and Frankfurt housing cases, asserting that inappropriate sequences damage building quality.
• After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.741
  Historical shift.
• It is, ultimately, the process, not the design, which gives life to a building.claim0.737
  Emphasizes process over blueprint.
• An unnamed Berkeley professor who publicly ridiculed the Mexicali project privately confessed he had always wanted to design buildings like that but never dared.finding0.737
  Direct evidence of the thought police phenomenon: a senior architect acknowledging the gap between his true desires and his public persona.