The comparison of Bangkok slum house and postmodern tower reveals a truth about life that disrupts current architectural education.

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• The slum in Bangkok has real life, while a pretentious postmodern house is a deathly thing.claim0.870
  Sharp contrast to illustrate that life can exist amid poverty and be absent amid wealth and style.
• The postmodern Gwathmey house has very few centers and therefore has little life.claim0.749
  Counterexample showing the deadness resulting from absence of centers.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.735
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.729
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• In a 1988 survey of architecture students, 70% liked the Botta house more, but 65% identified the traditional Swedish cottage as having more life.finding0.726
  Evidence that the mirror-of-the-self test can dissociate from intellectual fashion and tap a deeper, convergent judgment.
• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.726
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.726
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Buildings of recent decades (1940-90) are noticeably missing in these fifteen properties, and this is intentional due to 20th-century architectural theoriesclaim0.723
  Historical-critical claim that modern architecture consciously abandoned understanding and use of the fifteen properties, making contemporary buildings poor illustrations of living structure