Do you like to arrange your own house as you wish internally, or do you feel comfortable to have a mass-designed apartment made by an architect?

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• It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.787
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
• The architect must be a builder, taking the craft of building seriously as part of his work, to achieve life in a building.claim0.786
  The separation of design and construction prevents life.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.772
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• In modern architecture, neither design nor construction typically works step by step; instead there is a fixed end-state produced without realistic feedback.claim0.771
  Contrast between living process and current architectural practice.
• It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.claim0.770
  A design principle that rejects plan-driven layout.
• It is my contention that the shapes of a truly living architecture… can only be of this nature. They must have been created step by step—dynamically—both while they were being thought out and while they were being made.quote0.770
  Key normative claim about the geometric requirement for living architecture.
• You know, Chris, I have always wanted to design buildings like that myself ... but I have never dared to.quote0.763
  The unnamed professor's whispered confession after publicly ridiculing Alexander's Mexicali project; the most direct evidence of the thought police phenomenon.
• Architects must now necessarily play a major role as inventors of new techniques because existing available techniques do not permit creation of living structureclaim0.759
  Alexander's argument that passive component-assembly is insufficient and architects must become inventors.