The uniqueness-filled geometry is what makes us love a place.

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• The feeling a place presents to us is a measure of its life.claim0.783
  Epistemological claim that phenomenological response is the primary yardstick for evaluating living structure.
• The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.780
  If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
• 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.quote0.775
  The core aesthetic principle driving the structural design process.
• The geometry of space plays an enormous role in the presence or absence of deep human life: centers in space either support or hinder the evolution of free life.claim0.775
  Synthesis of geometry and life.
• 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.claim0.769
  Love as the driving force of living creation.
• Traditional neighborhoods that we love were produced by processes similar in character (different in geometry) to the fundamental process, and cannot be built any other wayclaim0.767
  Alexander's historical claim grounding the fundamental process in traditional building practice.
• 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.claim0.767
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• The sameness of construction provides the ground against which uniqueness is perceived and loved; differences stand out more sharply against shared sameness.claim0.766
  Explains why using common construction methods across houses actually heightens their uniqueness rather than diminishing it.