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Under the spell of modernist concepts, planners and officials became confused about the real wholeness, could no longer see it, and thus failed to act in structure-preserving ways.

Psychological effect of modernist ideology.

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Twentieth‑century thinking has made us careless so that we do not recognize this deeper structure as more profound and do not know how to create it.claim0.813
Blames modern education and design culture for losing the ability to generate living environments.
The core of the modern design movement—striving for originality, newness, breaking with tradition—was a structure-destroying force that denied unfolding.claim0.792
Fundamental critique of modernism.
Modern people, especially those educated in verbal concepts, often are not holistic perceivers; they perceive according to invented categories that blind them to wholeness.claim0.790
Critique of modern cognition.
In modern human society, building actions are not guaranteed to be wholeness preserving because they are governed by mental images and schemata.claim0.787
Central premise of the chapter.
The profound wholeness of living structure, almost every time it has been done most profoundly, has been done in a mystical‑religious context.claim0.784
A sweeping historical observation that grounds the claim that mystical context is a near‑universal condition for the highest living structure.
Modern society has almost lost the ability to sustain an unfolding process like nature due to willful, rule-bound schemata out of touch with real wholeness.claim0.782
Diagnosis of modernity.
Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.782
Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.781
Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.