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How to create a cosy and comfortable home environment
How to cultivate a sense of gratitude and contentment
The benefits of slowing down and enjoying simple pleasures
To speak of home in relation to a building is simply to recognise its harmony with our prized internal song.
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How wise were the ancient philosophers in suggesting that we exclude from our visions of contentment anything that might one day be covered by a lava or blow down in a hurricane, succumb to a chocolate smear or absorb a wine stain.
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The creation of beauty, once viewed as the central task of the architect, has quietly evaporated for serious professional discussion and retreated to a confused private imperative.
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The only problem with unrestricted choice, however, is that it tends not to lie so far from outright chaos.
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Sculptures and buildings were to assist us in bringing the best of ourselves to the fore.
They were to embalm our highest aspirations.
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We respect a style which can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave.
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Just as we cannot appreciate the attractions of safety without a background impression of danger, so, too, it is only in a building which flirts with confusion that we can apprehend the scale of our debt to our ordering capacities.
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