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Alexander repeatedly observed that students kept back their most remarkable work during critiques because it felt too vulnerable, insignificant, or embarrassing.

Empirical pattern from Alexander's teaching career: the best student work was consistently the work they were most reluctant to show.

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Students often hide their most remarkable work because it is too vulnerable, too close to the bone.
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From Alexander's teaching experience: the work students are most reluctant to show is often the best, because it is too personal and artless.

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Alexander jettisons many arguments; he rejects the computers and mathematics used in Notes a year after its publication.claim0.784
Observation of Alexander's pattern of self-rejection.
Alexander rejects the whole idea of design methods as a subject of study, since it is absurd to separate the study of designing from the practice of design.claim0.769
Steenson's paraphrased quote capturing Alexander's vehement rejection of the Design Methods Movement.
Original photographs from the 1970s in Alexander's foundational works were lost to reproduction technology; recovery and re-scanning materially improves knowledge transmission.claim0.767
Architects should understand Alexander's influence, programmers should critique it, and all should be suspicious of the monolithic white male architect trope.claim0.765
Steenson's normative stance on how different groups should engage with Alexander.
The work of Alexander was more radical than Arts and Crafts architects generally admitted.claim0.761
Assertion attributed to John Hanson about the radical nature of Alexander's approach.
Color theory in Alexander's work unlocks understanding of his broader theoretical framework.claim0.755
In the 1971 paperback preface, Alexander rejects the majority of Notes and attacks the Design Methods Movement.claim0.753
Key pivot in Alexander's career away from the design methods movement.
According to Kent Beck, Alexander's work represents 'a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.'claim0.752
Interpretation from software engineering that Steenson highlights.