"„if anything is described by an architectural plan, it is the nature of human relationships, since the elements whose trace it records — walls, doors, windows and stairs — are employed first to divide and then selectively to re-unite inhabited space.“"
"The change was important not only because it necessitated a rearrangement of the entire house, but also because it radically recast the pattern of domestic life"
"With this came a recognizably modern definition of prvacy, not as the answer to a perennial problem of 'convenience', but quite possibly as a way of fostering a nascent psychology in which the self was, for the first time, felt to be not just at risk in the prescene of others, but actually disfigure"
"...according to him, the passage was for servants: to keep them out of each other’s way and, more important still, to keep them out of the way of gentlemen and ladies. There was nothing new in this fastidiousness, the novelty was in the conscious employment of architecture to dispel it — a measure i"
"Dividing the house into two domains — an inner sanctuary of inhabited, sometimes disconnected rooms, and an unoccupied circulation space — worked in the same way as Mather’s sign, making it difficult to justify entering any room where you had no specific business. With this came a recognisably moder"