“One building standing alone in the countryside is experienced as a work of architecture, but bring half a dozen buildings together and an art other than architecture is made possible. Several things begin to happen in the group which would be impossible for the isolated building. We may walk through and past the buildings, and as a corner is truned an unsuspected building is suddenly revealed. We may be suprised, even astonished (a reaction generated by the composition of the group and not the individual building).”
Gordon Cullen (1971) The Concise Townscape, Elsevier Ltd.,p. 7