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The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.

Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.

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Many modern designs could not, under any circumstances, have been created by a structure-preserving step-by-step process; they are conceptual and barren.
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In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.845
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
Professional architecture of the 20th century has paid too little attention to the complex, subtle structure that only living processes create, leading to environments that rob millions of common sense.claim0.827
Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
Most of the possible building configurations are dead ones; they do not have life.claim0.821
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.claim0.819
Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
Conceptual buildings, not based on an unfolding process, do not fit practical human needs and stand awkwardly unrelated to their surroundings.claim0.818
Consequence of lack of unfolding.
A building has too many variables; we cannot get each aspect right unless it is possible to work out one aspect at a time, step by step.claim0.816
Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
The schemata created by modern and modernistic architectural efforts in the 20th century are too crude to carry the load of creating living geometry.claim0.815
Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.
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.claim0.813
Critique of contemporary building processes.