In a 1988 survey of architecture students, 70% liked the Botta house more, but 65% identified the traditional Swedish cottage as having more life.

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• Student experiment: 89 of 100 architecture students chose Bangkok slum house as having more life; 12 chose postmodern tower; 9 abstainedfinding0.796
  Empirical result from UC Berkeley lecture in Fall 1992 showing strong agreement on life judgment.
• The postmodern Gwathmey house has very few centers and therefore has little life.claim0.755
  Counterexample showing the deadness resulting from absence of centers.
• Botta's cylindrical houseconcept0.741
  An image of a cylindrical house used as a thought experiment; cannot result from unfolding.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.735
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• Given two versions of a building, A and B, can we tell empirically which one has more life, in a way which allows people to reach agreement — that is to say, objectively?question0.734
  Opening question of the chapter that the entire methodological argument is designed to answer
• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.730
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.
• The Georgian door has more life than the motel door because it receives more life from its component centers, which are better arranged and have more life themselves.claim0.727
  Comparative claim illustrating the role of density and arrangement of centers.
• The comparison of Bangkok slum house and postmodern tower reveals a truth about life that disrupts current architectural education.claim0.726
  Summarizes the power of the student experiment to unsettle values.