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concept:modernismModernism
A 20th-century architectural movement whose form languages are considered too crude to create living structure.
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- Modernism (Architecture)related_toArchitectural movement that Alexander positions his work against, seeking alternatives grounded in deeper understanding of past knowledge systems.
- alternative to Modernism through discovery of past knowledgeassociated_withAlexander's approach of discovering concretely what pre-modern artisans knew, rather than merely returning to past styles.
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- Inside the Visitor CentrementionsArticle by Alan Powers about Christopher Alexander's West Dean Visitor Centre, published in Perspectives, August/September 1996.
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- The chapter argues that creating living structure requires a form language, and proposes that the fifteen structure-preserving transformations can serve as the basis for such a language.
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- Late 20th-century architectural style that continued image-driven, structure-destroying approaches.
- Claim about the nature of a genuine alternative to Modernism.
- Art based on ideas and concepts, which Alexander argues cannot attain life because it contradicts unfolding from the whole.
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