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finding:an-unnamed-berkeley-professor-who-publicly-ridiculed-the-mexicali-project-privately-confessed-he-had-always-wanted-to-design-buildings-like-that-but-never-daredAn unnamed Berkeley professor who publicly ridiculed the Mexicali project privately confessed he had always wanted to design buildings like that but never dared.
Direct evidence of the thought police phenomenon: a senior architect acknowledging the gap between his true desires and his public persona.
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- Drawn from the unnamed professor's confession: even senior architects have inner censors that repress their genuine design desires.
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- Mexicali Faculty Presentation at UC Berkeley (1979)associated_withSlide presentation of the Mexicali project to Berkeley architecture faculty; the faculty ridiculed the work, but one professor later confessed he always wanted to design such buildings.
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- Alexander's diagnosis at the architecture jury; he led students to admit that they had never been taught to like what they make.
- Empirical outcome of the architecture jury intervention: students conceded that professional training had never emphasized liking what one makes.
- Attributes the program's demise to a paradigm clash, consistent with Kuhn's theory.
- Claim comparing Alexander's critique to 19th-century reformers.
- Case study illustrating how Cartesian epistemological constraints force people to translate phenomenological observations into mechanistic language to gain legitimacy
- Alexander's educational program teaching students to work with living processes in real construction projects, eventually closed by faculty opposition.
- Role of architects as propagandists.