Virtually all shocking blunders of modern and postmodern architecture turned out bad because they were unexamined experimentally—proposals were not compared by feeling to find the step with the deepest life.

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• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.802
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• The critical difference between successful living processes and unsuccessful modern architectural processes is the absence of feedback.claim0.792
  Summary of the root cause of lifelessness in modern architecture.
• The view that profound architectural form arises from sudden inspired vision is completely wrong and incompatible with how living structure is actually created through slow successive transformations.claim0.784
  Alexander's architectural conclusion from his natural philosophy argument, issued as a definitive critique of modernist design ideology
• 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.claim0.783
  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.claim0.782
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• 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.claim0.781
  Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
• In the late 20th century, architectural judgment had been turned on its head by prevailing dogma, requiring a formal observational method as antidoteclaim0.781
  Historical claim explaining why a formal methodology is needed to counter deliberate perversion of commonsense architectural values
• Architecture cannot be good so long as we try to do it within a mechanical conception of matter.claim0.775
  The impossibility of good architecture under mechanistic cosmology.