The Samarkand pattern language list, merely from naming its centers in sequence, immediately creates a magical atmosphere defining the place without any physical design

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• A pattern language will work well only to the extent that it embraces a whole — comprising everything needed for a complete building of that type — so that its patterns work together as a coherent systemhypothesis0.762
  Condition for success of an artificial pattern language stated in section 3
• Pattern Language represents a rearrangement of the political power in the design and building process.claim0.760
• A well-constructed pattern language has the fifteen properties embedded within it, giving it a driving force that makes geometrical wholeness more easily visible and attainableclaim0.756
  Connecting pattern language theory to the fifteen properties framework as its geometric substrate
• Though the pattern language was created by the architect from people's words, it is theirs — they recognize it as their own collective visionclaim0.748
  Describes the appropriate role of the architect as scribe, not author of the collective vision
• 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.claim0.742
  Identifies the pattern of middle-range entities as the primary source of overall geometric order and beauty
• In assembling the pattern, it is necessary from time to time, to examine the state of the pattern many atoms away, if one is to be sure of not making a serious error when putting the pieces together.quote0.741
  Penrose's statement about quasicrystal assembly, used as evidence that non-local action is required in natural morphogenesis
• Patterns can be seen as active agents in the sense-making process.claim0.741
  Central speculative claim blurring the line between data and algorithms.
• Successful traditional built environments were always generated by culture-specific pattern languages that ensured variety, beauty, and fitness through combinatorial use of generic centersfinding0.736
  Historical generalization undergirding the prescriptive theory of pattern languages