It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.

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• rooms first, plan secondconcept0.803
  The design approach of perfecting each room individually before worrying about overall plan coherence.
• In typical apartment buildings, the plan is treated as fixed and not subject to correction, preventing sensible adaptation and resulting in unloved spaces.claim0.790
  Critique of apartment design process.
• Make every effort to allow the value of the indoor space—the rooms' tranquility, geometry, peacefulness—as much weight, money, and effort as the outdoors.claim0.790
  Corrective to the common neglect of interior quality.
• 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.claim0.787
  The three most salient factors for room life.
• Each room will most often be simple in shape, most often rectangular.claim0.786
  Invariant of good rooms.
• After years of trying to make it work, it is after all necessary to have some kind of plan to create the large-scale order of a city.claim0.785
  Conclusion that piecemeal growth alone is insufficient; a guiding plan is necessary.
• It is the space which comes to life. All that we do, as architects, is then to arrange and rearrange this living space, in such a way as to intensify its life.claim0.785
  Synthetic statement that architecture is the art of awakening space.
• It is, above all, the light and relation to movement and relation to the whole which give quality and character to a room.quote0.782
  Summarizes the three primary determinants of room life.