Student experiment: 89 of 100 architecture students chose Bangkok slum house as having more life; 12 chose postmodern tower; 9 abstained

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• The slum in Bangkok has real life, while a pretentious postmodern house is a deathly thing.claim0.826
  Sharp contrast to illustrate that life can exist amid poverty and be absent amid wealth and style.
• In a 1988 survey of architecture students, 70% liked the Botta house more, but 65% identified the traditional Swedish cottage as having more life.finding0.796
  Evidence that the mirror-of-the-self test can dissociate from intellectual fashion and tap a deeper, convergent judgment.
• Berkeley architecture students admitted, after half an hour of discussion, that they did not genuinely like their own work in the ordinary sense.finding0.752
  Empirical outcome of the architecture jury intervention: students conceded that professional training had never emphasized liking what one makes.
• Nagoya survey: families overwhelmingly preferred low-rise housing and considered it to have more lifefinding0.743
  Survey result from 100 families in Japan, showing perceived greater life in low-rise, high-density housing vs high-rise.
• The question of life threatens modern architecture because its examples have less life.claim0.737
  Interpretation of student discomfort as defense of contemporary architectural norms.
• Buildings made with an eye to the past will most often fail to have living structure, because the process of historical reproduction somehow turns vivid, living structure sour.claim0.731
  Argues that copying historical forms does not produce living structure.
• Modern architectural design typically creates a schematic drawing containing hundreds of untested decisions, with no step-by-step testing against real life.claim0.728
  Critique of current design practice: hundreds of variables frozen at once.
• A roughly bent S-curve of cardboard placed at the Berkeley house entrance showed noticeably more life potential than a straight approach, demonstrable even at rough mockup stagefinding0.726
  Design process case study showing the wholeness criterion operates effectively at early rough mockup stages