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Even a gigantic building must still be made of a relatively simple series of exterior volumes which form a single largest center.

Asserts the universal necessity of simple exterior volumes regardless of building size

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The Tokyo Forum design contains a main auditorium 100 meters long, 50 meters wide, and 20 meters high — the size of a football field — with principal structural elements being massive walls rather than columns.
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Documents the extreme scale at which the aperiodic grid principle was applied

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The main room of a building—in size, position, light, volume, character, and structure—must be unforgettable.claim0.805
Rule for the most important room.
A successful large building will always show subtle syncopation of regularity combined with gentle accommodation to the land, with a continuous range of scales down to the most intimate details.claim0.785
Summary of the geometric invariants that result from living process in large buildings.
IN A BUILDING WHICH HAS LIFE, WHATEVER IS MADE IS ALWAYS THE SIMPLEST THING CONSISTENT WITH ITS NECESSITIES OF FEELING AND WITH THE CLOSE AND CONTINUOUS ATTENTION TO FEELING WHILE IT EVOLVES INTO FORM. THIS, I THINK, IS THE CLOSEST I CAN COME TO DESCRIBING THE CORE OF ARCHITECTURE.quote0.783
The opening manifesto of the chapter, encapsulating the essence.
What is the essence of the way to make a large building in the context of living process?question0.781
Central question the chapter aims to answer, posed at the start of the Great Hall discussion.
The exterior structure is as vital a part of the structure of the whole, as the building.claim0.776
The equal importance of outdoor built elements to the building itself.
To be whole, a building must be 'lost' in its surroundings—not separate, but part and parcel of them.claim0.774
Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
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.claim0.774
Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
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.claim0.774
Interpretation that the absence of hierarchical scaling is the reason modern buildings feel inhuman.