Architecture of the 21st Century

Alexander's projected future architecture using ultramodern materials and process-based techniques to achieve living structure unlike 20th-century mechanical repetition.

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Future living architecture may use concrete, glass, steel, aluminum, plastics, fibers, fiber cements, mud, sand, and polymers, but in ways unlike mechanical repetition if these materials can produce beautifully fitted parts
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Alexander's open-ended hypothesis about the material palette of 21st-century living architecture.

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20th-Century Architectural Designconcept0.787
The conventional method of creating buildings on paper or screen by arbitrary design moves, incapable of finding living structures.
Image in Architectureconcept0.777
The focus on visual imagery or style that leads to forms not attainable by structure-preserving steps.
Postmodernism (architecture)concept0.769
Late 20th-century architectural style that continued image-driven, structure-destroying approaches.
Modernism (Architecture)concept0.754
Architectural movement that Alexander positions his work against, seeking alternatives grounded in deeper understanding of past knowledge systems.
information architectureconcept0.754
Field Steenson worked in (1997 onwards); term denoting structural design of information systems; borrowed 'architecture' from computer design.
Modern Movement (architecture)concept0.752
The 20th-century architectural movement that prioritized originality and broke with tradition, often structure-destroying.
techno-architectureconcept0.750
Architectural 'design,' the 20th-century process, does not work and cannot work in principle.claim0.746