The images created by famous architects (Le Corbusier, Mies, etc.) formed an accepted style that embodied defects of the production system and became targets for younger architects.

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• The image-conscious high-style architecture served as justification for mass-produced commercial buildings that also lacked unfolding due to industrial procedures.claim0.794
  Connection between high style and mass production.
• The makers of image-ridden, ugly buildings did not truly please themselves; they acted out of wilfulness and a desire to conform.claim0.790
  Alexander argues that what appears to be self-pleasing in modern architecture is actually wilfulness and professional image-management.
• A generation of young architects was trained to be virtually unable to understand a life-creating production process.claim0.783
  Educational failure.
• 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.claim0.783
  Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
• The schemata created by modern and modernistic architectural efforts in the 20th century are too crude to carry the load of creating living geometry.claim0.774
  Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.
• Modern architectural design typically creates a schematic drawing containing hundreds of untested decisions, with no step-by-step testing against real life.claim0.771
  Critique of current design practice: hundreds of variables frozen at once.
• It is impossible, in principle, for an unfolding process to produce the works of Botta, Mies, or Le Corbusier; their works are therefore arbitrary and lifeless.claim0.771
  Strong in-principle claim against modern icons.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.770
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.