The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.

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• The absence of life we recognize as a familiar problem of the past century comes about because the processes which create objects, artifacts, buildings, neighborhoods, agriculture, forests, towns, roads, bridges - nearly all fail to have the character of unfolding wholeness.claim0.807
  Diagnosis of modern lifelessness.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.803
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.796
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.795
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• The critical difference between successful living processes and unsuccessful modern architectural processes is the absence of feedback.claim0.794
  Summary of the root cause of lifelessness in modern architecture.
• Value in architecture can be objective and real, not merely subjective; the degree of life in buildings is a fact that can be observed.claim0.794
  A direct challenge to the second and third tacit assumptions, fundamental to Alexander's view of building.
• Most present-day architects like talking about construction but are afraid of construction tools, and architectural education prevents students from gaining construction experience.claim0.790
  Observation about the culture of architecture that perpetuates the separation of design from making.
• 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.claim0.789
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.