Nearly every human experience can
and does take place in a house, and the
organization of a house and the spaces
within it should take this variety into
account. This is not to say that our
homes should have spaces for each kind
of experience and emotion—that in
addition to endless places to eat, sit and
work, there might be one room for
sadness, another for celebration,
another for love, and yet another for
disagreement and confrontation—but
simply that our designs should
acknowledge these various "functions"
of a house.
Luckily for our budgets, we can do
many different things in the same
space—but this creates a tension. On
the one hand, spaces need to be as
abstract as possible,