The effort is, at each moment, to make each 'thing' positive. Space is made positive. Mass is made positive. Each element is given a positive and definite form.

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• Always, you are trying to make positive space.claim0.813
  Guiding principle for arranging structures in a garden.
• Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped, just as a room is shaped.claim0.800
  Fundamental definition of positive space as room-like enclosure.
• Space is a material whose most important feature is its capacity to form centers.claim0.791
  Reiteration of a key premise from Book 1 within the new metaphysical framework.
• Positive space is common in natural wholes where both figures and interstitial spaces form positive shapes, as in bubbles, crazing, and crystal growth.claim0.783
• The more austere forms of buildings also arise from the wholeness that comes from buildings that are near rectangular, to make positive space.claim0.778
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.776
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• The very same principles (positive space, alternating repetition, powerful centers) apply at every scale, from ornament to land and building structure.claim0.773
  Universality of the geometric principles across scales.
• 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.claim0.773
  Corrective to the common neglect of interior quality.