The public has been much in favour of the building because the Visitor Centre has the sort of easy familiarity that non-architects understand more readily.

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• The public responded favorably to the West Dean Visitor Centre for its easy familiarity, while architectural specialists questioned its material juxtapositionsfinding0.827
• To anyone searching the horizon for an architectural future that does not repeat the paths of Classicism, Modernism or any other style-based solution, the Visitor Centre at West Dean represents a set of possible answers.claim0.781
  Author's concluding claim about the building's broader significance.
• It does not have to do with density. It has to do with whether there is a general understanding by people who build and who pay for buildings, that the public space needs to be made usable.claim0.781
  Refutes the density excuse, placing responsibility on shared intention and understanding
• The existence of widely agreed‑upon lists of great buildings suggests a shared perception of life in buildings.claim0.770
  Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
• The great majority of modern buildings are awkward assemblies of unrelated components, lacking the coherence necessary to be living designs.claim0.750
  Aesthetic judgment on modern buildings.
• The reason why I must try and make the building as a gift to God is that this state of mind is the only one which reliably keeps me concentrated on what is.claim0.747
  The practical function of the religious attitude in making.
• The public hall of public space is probably best done by the builders with the help and cooperation of individual families and businessesclaim0.745
  A practical conclusion about how to create the public realm after a vision is established
• IT IS THE LAND WHICH MATTERS. The purpose of the buildings is to bring life to the land.claim0.743
  The building volumes are merely tools; the land and its space, as activated, are what really matter.