'All activities occur in space. All life is movement in space. Beneath our lives there is a discoverable pattern of coming and going, of moving in this space. The pattern of movement becomes the plan of the house - it is the plan of the lives of the people. The architect does not invent plans - he discovers them.
Space is one, indivisible. You can't divide it up into little parcels. When you try, space is lost. Volumes result. If you plan volumes (boxes) in which activities are to occur, you have to put them together in such a way that the people can get from one to another. You are forcing people into packages, however well designed they may be'.
Bill Wilson 'The Small House' (1948) Annual Magazine of the Students Association of Auckland University College
From: Shaw, Peter (2003) A History of New Zealand Architecture, Rev 3rd Ed. Hodder Moa Beckett
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