Big buildings overwhelm us not because of size but because the LEVELS OF SCALE are missing; in nature, they always preserve scale in relation to us.

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

• Levels of scale is not a mechanical thing requiring merely a wide range of sizes; it arises properly only when each center gives life to the next one and the detail actually does something to create life in larger centersclaim0.807
  Clarification that levels of scale fails when detail is merely present but not doing anything—as in machine-made doors with superficially many panels that have no real life
• The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.802
  Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
• The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.801
  If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
• A building has too many variables; we cannot get each aspect right unless it is possible to work out one aspect at a time, step by step.claim0.801
  Direct application of the coin argument to building design and construction.
• It is, indeed, this pattern of the middle-sized entities, which most strongly gives overall geometric order to the building. Without it, a building is very unlikely to be beautiful.claim0.800
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• Buildings and objects with living structure enlarge our capacity for relatedness; those without deaden it, even in nature.claim0.797
  Practical consequence for architecture and urbanism.
• The task of architecture—building—directly impacts the wholeness of the world, increasing or destroying living structure on a planetary scale.claim0.795
  Result of the new view: architecture becomes a vital ecological and existential issue.
• The appearance of distinct levels of mass and scale must happen inevitably in a living process as one develops the building structure.claim0.795
  Claims inevitability of scale differentiation in living structural development