Each room has four main stages to its unfolding: position, main centers, fine structure, tranquility.

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• Four major process steps are needed to bring life to a room: choose the position, conceive main and minor centers, attend to filigree and fine structure, simplify to bring tranquility.claim0.841
  Summary of the room design method.
• The main room of a building—in size, position, light, volume, character, and structure—must be unforgettable.claim0.811
  Rule for the most important room.
• Usually the main center of a room is defined by two things: it is a quiet spot in the pattern of movement and a place near the light.claim0.807
  Operational definition of a room's main center.
• Under a living process, as unfolding proceeds, the relative areas of these four components need to remain almost equal.claim0.805
  Invariant that living process maintains percentage balance.
• Rooms are given their life, first of all, by their position in the flow of movement, the light, and their connection with the outer world beyond the windows.claim0.794
  The three most salient factors for room life.
• It is, above all, the light and relation to movement and relation to the whole which give quality and character to a room.quote0.794
  Summarizes the three primary determinants of room life.
• The room sticks out and claims a substantial part of the perimeter, beginning to shape the building around the room.claim0.789
  How a room's need for light and view determines the building envelope.
• main centers of a roomconcept0.788
  The key interior centers—often near light and quiet from movement—that define the room's life.