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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.

Critique of contemporary building processes.

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Chapter 3: Structure-Preserving Transformations In Traditional Society
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The current paper, arguing that life in buildings arises from structure-preserving transformations, as exemplified in traditional societies.

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The core of the modern design movement—striving for originality, newness, breaking with tradition—was a structure-destroying force that denied unfolding.claim0.822
Fundamental critique of modernism.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.822
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.813
Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.809
Central premise of the chapter.
Modern society created an ethos where buildings are judged only by themselves, not by their enhancement of the world, leading to damage to nature and ancient towns.claim0.803
Ethical dimension of modern architecture.
Is the way that we view design, planning, and construction—in all the spheres mentioned, ecosystems, buildings, communities, objects, computers and computer software—the right way to produce sufficient complexity, and does what we are doing have a chance of success?question0.802
Opening rhetorical question that frames the problem of creating complexity.
To have living modern architecture, society must have a process capable of generating building form dynamically, step by step, at all scales.claim0.800
The need for a new kind of process in society.
The modern process of development has all but destroyed our capacity to create living structure in the world.claim0.797
Alexander's conclusion that the profit-driven, remote development model is fundamentally anti-life.