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Glassblowers at Royal Dutch Glassworks reported that nowadays they rarely blow glasses that they truly like.

Multiple glassblowers independently told Alexander they liked making his blue glasses, implying they usually do not like their work.

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People do not know—emotionally—how to please themselves. In part, they are prevented by society. And in part, they are prevented by themselves, by their inner thought police.
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Diagnosis of why living structure is absent from the world: a failure of emotional knowledge enforced by social and internal constraints.

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These glasses have something of the self in them. Because of that, Henk liked them. And because of that, they are truly likeable.claim0.742
Alexander's interpretation of why the blue glasses were deeply liked by the glassblower.
The works of Nolde, Matisse, Bonnard, van Gogh and a few modern buildings touch a modern wellspring that is almost the same as the mystical wellspring that inspired historical works, yet in a non‑religious form.claim0.712
The observation that non‑religious modern works can still achieve a comparable spiritual quality, showing the rootstock is not confined to traditional religion.
Henk Verweg secretly kept one of the blue glasses for himself, saying it was one of the first glasses he had ever deeply liked in his career.finding0.712
The chief glassblower's action and confession demonstrate the rarity of objects that truly please their makers.
Most present-day architects like talking about construction but are afraid of construction tools, and architectural education prevents students from gaining construction experience.claim0.710
Observation about the culture of architecture that perpetuates the separation of design from making.
No building has the wabi-sabi, rusty, imperfect quality at the time when it is built; but some buildings and landscapes invite it, encourage it, foster it.claim0.705
A nuanced claim about the temporal dimension of belonging and living structure.
In the best cases, the building form will be interwoven with nature itself, seeming extremely ordinary, not like the work of an architect's hands.claim0.702
After 1900, a variety of modern building processes came into use that are not structure-preserving—some accidentally structure-destroying, others actively promoting ugliness for profit.claim0.700
Historical shift.
Architects who believe they help make things more human by going back to stone, mud, and thatch are deluding themselves that this could ever enter widespread mainstream building processesclaim0.699
Alexander's critique of the romantic return to primitive materials as economically unviable at scale.