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Working on the house has started to feel like an ongoing dialogue. Rather than imposing our preconceived ideas onto a bunch of inert matter, we often find ourselves asking, What does the house want? People who visit sometimes remark on the special feel of the place. They’ll ask, How did you make this house so cozy? The answer, as Bennett has shown

Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, who, in his 1923 book, Towards a New Architecture, declared: ‘What [modern man] wants is a monk’s cell, well-lit and heated, with a corner from which he can look at the stars.’