What exactly am I aiming for in a building, in a column, in a room? How do I define it for myself, so that I feel it clearly, so that it stands as a beacon to steer me in what I do every day?

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• 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.claim0.775
  Operational definition of a room's main center.
• When you are done, if you have reached what you aim for, you feel the impact of its 'presence.' This is how architecture comes about.claim0.769
  Defines the experiential criterion — felt presence — as the endpoint and definition of successful architecture
• The room sticks out and claims a substantial part of the perimeter, beginning to shape the building around the room.claim0.764
  How a room's need for light and view determines the building envelope.
• A building that has life creates deep feeling in the person who encounters it.claim0.763
• It is, above all, the light and relation to movement and relation to the whole which give quality and character to a room.quote0.759
  Summarizes the three primary determinants of room life.
• "Remember that each building exists mainly to activate the land."quote0.758
  A summarizing heading that serves as a load-bearing aphorism for the whole chapter.
• It is more important to get the rooms right, one by one, than it is to have a coherent 'plan'.claim0.758
  A design principle that rejects plan-driven layout.
• This is the moment when the building becomes architecture.claim0.757
  The brutal geometric moment — making positive elements, syncopated harmony, massive stones — is what transforms mere building into architecture