The core of the modern design movement—striving for originality, newness, breaking with tradition—was a structure-destroying force that denied unfolding.

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• The modern world we build, because its construction is driven by our attitudes about money, production, design, building, and planning, breaks from smooth unfolding at almost every stage.claim0.822
  Critique of contemporary building processes.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.809
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.806
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• Many modern designs could not, under any circumstances, have been created by a structure-preserving step-by-step process; they are conceptual and barren.claim0.804
  In-principle impossibility claim.
• In a living process, design steps and construction steps must be interleaved and entangled; the 20th-century separation does enormous violence to living structure.claim0.803
  States that the sequential separation of design and construction is incompatible with unfolding, requiring a new form of process.
• 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.claim0.801
  Historical shift.
• In nature the principle of unfolding wholeness creates living structure nearly all the time. Human designers, who are not constrained by this unfolding, can violate the wholeness if they wish to, and can therefore create non-living structure as often as they choose.quote0.799
  Encapsulates the distinction between natural and human-made order, central to Alexander's critique of contemporary architecture.
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.794
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.