Scale, above all, is vital; the right size of pieces only becomes clear when one is standing looking down at them.

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• 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 centersclaim0.817
  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
• Living structure is enormously susceptible to minor changes, and accuracy of detail is necessary for success.claim0.801
  Warning that the recursion of centers requires extreme precision.
• In portraiture, as in architecture, it is the wholeness which is the real thing that lies beneath the surface and determines everything.claim0.794
  Generalization from the Matisse example: artistic success depends on capturing wholeness.
• The appearance of distinct levels of mass and scale must happen inevitably in a living process as one develops the building structure.claim0.789
  Claims inevitability of scale differentiation in living structural development
• 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.claim0.789
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• We can sense, ahead of time, the quality of the completed whole, even when we cannot yet visualize it.claim0.785
• Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.784
  Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.
• In order to make buildings by unfolding - hence by structure-preserving transformations - it is necessary, truly, to pay attention to the wholeness in the world. This 'paying attention to the wholeness' is essentially synonymous with love of life.quote0.784
  Connection between process, attention, and love.