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The schemata created by modern and modernistic architectural efforts in the 20th century are too crude to carry the load of creating living geometry.

Critique of 20th-century modernism's inadequate form language.

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Chapter 16: Form Language And Style
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The chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.

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Modern architectural design typically creates a schematic drawing containing hundreds of untested decisions, with no step-by-step testing against real life.claim0.836
Critique of current design practice: hundreds of variables frozen at once.
The geometry of living structure is markedly different in kind from the geometry of design done on a drawing board or on a computer.claim0.828
Fundamental distinction between generated and static geometry.
It is my contention that the shapes of a truly living architecture… can only be of this nature. They must have been created step by step—dynamically—both while they were being thought out and while they were being made.quote0.820
Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
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.claim0.818
Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
The shapes of a truly living architecture can only be of this unfolded nature, created step by step dynamically, both in conception and construction.claim0.817
Universal claim about all living architecture.
The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.815
Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
The images or schemata that guide actions may be wholeness preserving or not, and modern architects often paid no attention to existing wholeness.claim0.807
Moral evaluation of modern architecture.
In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.805
Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.