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quote:remember-that-each-building-exists-mainly-to-activate-the-land"Remember that each building exists mainly to activate the land."
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- The building volumes are merely tools; the land and its space, as activated, are what really matter.
- The land—its valleys, ridges, trees, paths—are improved, made more solid, given a more living structure by a well-placed building.
- The land itself, and our love for it, is enough to give the actual building volumes their shape.claim0.805If the volumes genuinely help the land, they become more graceful, serious, and differentiated.
- Universality of the geometric principles across scales.
- Argues for intersubjective agreement about the quality of life.
- Connection between process, perception, and love.
- Defines the paradoxical quality of a living whole in architecture.
- Connection between process, attention, and love.