The images or schemata that guide actions may be wholeness preserving or not, and modern architects often paid no attention to existing wholeness.

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• In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.866
  Central premise of the chapter.
• The schemata created by modern and modernistic architectural efforts in the 20th century are too crude to carry the load of creating living geometry.claim0.807
  Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.800
  Connection between process, attention, and love.
• "Taking architecture seriously leads us to the proper treatment of tiny details, to an understanding of the unfolding whole, and to an understanding – mystical in part – of the entity that underpins that wholeness. The path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God."concept0.796
  Alexander's late-life conclusion articulating architecture as path to God; Steenson uses this to ground her disagreement with his empirical universalism.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.796
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.793
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding, it is necessary to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.claim0.792
  Connection between process, perception, and love.
• An injection of new structure into a place can either respect and enhance the existing wholeness or violate and destroy it; this is an objective structural fact, not merely aesthetic preference.claim0.791
  Alexander's assertion that judgments about whether interventions preserve wholeness are structural and mathematical rather than subjective or romantic.