The modern architectural office is alienated and soul-destroying, as experienced by most students and workers.

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• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.781
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.
• 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.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.765
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.762
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The architecture of the past century served the inherently machine-like production process that is incapable of creating life.claim0.761
  General historical verdict.
• Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.760
• 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.claim0.759
  Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
• It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.755
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.