This book (and the timeless way of building) were so important when we designed our house with our architect.

Two points that have stuck with me in the decades since:

1- find the nicest place in your property and don’t build there

2- corridors are wasted space because you travel through them and don’t linger. In the end we had only one corridor like space, and it had glass walls on all sides (one side was doors open all summer) so you felt like you were outside, plus it expanded so there was a place to sit.

The two page chapter structure works well for this. The Society of Mind uses the same structure.