20th-Century Architectural Design

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• Architecture of the 21st Centuryconcept0.787
  Alexander's projected future architecture using ultramodern materials and process-based techniques to achieve living structure unlike 20th-century mechanical repetition.
• 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.claim0.756
  Critique of mainstream architectural practice as detrimental to human wholeness.
• Urban Designconcept0.755
• Modernism (Architecture)concept0.740
  Architectural movement that Alexander positions his work against, seeking alternatives grounded in deeper understanding of past knowledge systems.
• Modern architectural design typically creates a schematic drawing containing hundreds of untested decisions, with no step-by-step testing against real life.claim0.739
  Critique of current design practice: hundreds of variables frozen at once.
• Image in Architectureconcept0.735
  The focus on visual imagery or style that leads to forms not attainable by structure-preserving steps.
• Representation Designconcept0.733
  The aspect of design dealing with data structures, modules, and implementation.
• 20th-century design vocabulary asserted that structures should be 'interesting,' 'fantastic,' 'exhilarating'—anything but truly beautiful.claim0.726
  The claim that 'beautiful' has unalterable meaning and was systematically replaced by lesser aesthetic terms in modern discourse.