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artifact:the-fuggerei-augsburgThe Fuggerei (Augsburg)
16th-century workers' housing in Augsburg; rigid rows of houses adapted to site boundaries and orchards; historical example of brutal geometry successfully fitted to land
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
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- The property that living wholes have a geometrical simplicity and purity with a certain slowness, majesty, and quietness; everything unnecessary is removed—all centers not actively supporting other centers are stripped out
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- Uses traditional architecture as evidence that the generative sequence is historically reliable