The slum in Bangkok has real life, while a pretentious postmodern house is a deathly thing.

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• The comparison of Bangkok slum house and postmodern tower reveals a truth about life that disrupts current architectural education.claim0.870
  Summarizes the power of the student experiment to unsettle values.
• Student experiment: 89 of 100 architecture students chose Bangkok slum house as having more life; 12 chose postmodern tower; 9 abstainedfinding0.826
  Empirical result from UC Berkeley lecture in Fall 1992 showing strong agreement on life judgment.
• The postmodern Gwathmey house has very few centers and therefore has little life.claim0.766
  Counterexample showing the deadness resulting from absence of centers.
• A building can have real life only when the building details have life and are adapted, in their fine structure, to the life of the building.claim0.752
  Life at larger scales depends on life at the fine scale.
• No building has real life unless it is deeply and robustly functional.claim0.743
  Opening assertion setting the stage for unified ornament-function.
• The health or lack of health of various places in a neighborhood, meter by meter, is widely recognized, felt more or less the same by everyone, and is an objective reality — not a matter of opinionclaim0.739
  Alexander's assertion that neighborhood quality assessment is objective, supported by Yodan Rose's study.
• A building's life is not a matter of style but of substance: the presence of living centers.claim0.739
  Distinction between superficial style and deep structure.
• Each of the four examples (doll, Julian Street Inn, West Dean bench, Linz alcoves) has the minimal structure for its situation that carries weight of feeling.claim0.737