The machine-like processes of modern society (planning, budgeting, contracting) are the primary cause of structure-destroying forms, not architects alone.

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• 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.claim0.823
  Historical shift.
• The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.804
  Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.
• Architects became advance men for the structure-destroying program, inventing slogans like 'machine for living' to justify machine-based processes.claim0.803
  Role of architects as propagandists.
• Structure always originates from a structure-preserving process, even when archetypal form is generated from a vision or dream.claim0.797
• structure-destroying modernityconcept0.792
  The prevailing modern practice that blindly destroys valuable structure in cities and landscapes.
• The problem of structure-destroying transformations applies both to a building's relation to its surroundings and to the interior structure of the building itself.claim0.789
  Scope of the problem.
• This process is harmful, and has a strong tendency to work against creation of living structure in building design.claim0.784
• To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.780
  The need for a new kind of process in society.