The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.

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• IT IS THE LAND WHICH MATTERS. The purpose of the buildings is to bring life to the land.claim0.825
  The building volumes are merely tools; the land and its space, as activated, are what really matter.
• Each building enlivens and intensifies the land.claim0.812
  The land—its valleys, ridges, trees, paths—are improved, made more solid, given a more living structure by a well-placed building.
• "Remember that each building exists mainly to activate the land."quote0.805
  A summarizing heading that serves as a load-bearing aphorism for the whole chapter.
• If the volume is congruent with the wholeness which existed previously in the city or on the land, a profound feeling can often come from its congruence.hypothesis0.805
  The predicted outcome of a good site-design process.
• 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.claim0.801
  Interpretation that the absence of hierarchical scaling is the reason modern buildings feel inhuman.
• It is, then, this love of life which is embodied in the conception of a building, in its detail, in its execution - because the wholeness that people paid attention to really was the whole, really was all of life, and people were not ashamed or too frightened to respond to all of it in their actions as builders.claim0.798
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• The building as a whole, its feeling, will largely hinge on the way in which it is a beautiful, pure pattern in which solid elements and open elements, volumes, spaces, voids, and solid cores of material, together form a satisfying pattern of centers.quote0.795
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• The physical street must be built after the houses — not before — because the street draws its life and form from the real volumes which houses take on during constructionclaim0.794
  A specific counter-intuitive sequencing claim about how streets and buildings should be ordered in the living process.