The postmodern Gwathmey house has very few centers and therefore has little life.

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• Postmodern architectural centers suffer from four defects: lack of smaller centers, image-like copies, failure to emerge from wholeness, and failure to help form larger centers.claim0.790
  Framework for critiquing postmodern design, exemplified by Stirling's Berlin library.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.777
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• Even with non-linear dynamics and complexity theory, the specific appearance of the fifteen properties and emergence of living centers in the world remains largely unexplained.claim0.770
  Alexander's critical assessment of the limits of current complexity science relative to his explanatory target
• The slum in Bangkok has real life, while a pretentious postmodern house is a deathly thing.claim0.766
  Sharp contrast to illustrate that life can exist amid poverty and be absent amid wealth and style.
• The centers which bring life to a room are larger features which lie beyond the boundary of the room.claim0.764
  A key insight about position and context.
• Many good rooms will have minor centers of a similar kind, supporting the main center and placed near windows or focal points.claim0.763
  The role of subsidiary centers.
• Every living center may be distinguished as living, to the degree that it is a picture of the eternal self.claim0.762
  Central proposition from Book 1 that grounds the beings model.
• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.757
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.