The window in crisis in search of universal principles in search of an introduction to the study of architecture phenomena of perception the pleasure of looking at, listening to, feeling, touching and moving through architecture seeing and noticing Visual laws The eye is not innocent The sphere and the rose ORDER AND DISORDER INEVITABLE ORDER Order in building The sense of order FACTORS OF COHERENCE Repetition and similarity Proximity Common enclosure and common ground Orientation of elements: parallelism or convergence towards a void or a solid Interaction of factors FROM ORDER TO CHAOS Homogeneity and texture Alignments and series Gradation Hierarchy Contrast Complexity Contradiction Chaos REGULARITY AND IRREGULARITY Simplicity Regularity Exception to the rule MEASURE AND BALANCE ANTHROPOMORPHISM AND ARCHITECTURE FASCINATION WITH NUMBER AND PROPORTION Commensurate proportions Incommensurate proportions Proportions in difficulty BALANCE Symmetry Asymmetrical balance FABRIC AND OBJECT TOWN AND MONUMENTS COMPOSITION OF THE OBJECT: ARTICULATION AND CONTINUITY Articulation Continuity THE OBJECT: FACES, CORNERS, RELATIONSHIP TO GROUND AND SKY Positive articulation: corner plinth and cornice in relief Negative articulation: the recessed joint The sharp edge The fusion of planes First InterludeFrom object to space spatiality of objects relationships between objects space elements of spatial definition depths of space densities of space openings of space spatial juxtaposition and interpenetration geometry of plans, sections and spaces Spatial characteristics of elementary geometrie figures Assembly of rooms LIGHT AND SHADE Light comes to us from things Quantity and ąuality Light and space Shadow Floor, wall and ceiling second interludefrom space to place place the site limits and thresholds from one place to the next: path and orientation Cosmic, territorial and temporal orientation Dynamics of the path A PLACE FOR IDENTITY FORM AND THE NATURĘ OF MATERIALS The glorification of techniąue Techniąue as an image Falsification Techniąue subdued Techniąue tamed MATERIALS HAVE THEIR OWN PROPENSITIES Form and materiał Thickness Texture and surface modulation Support structure and cladding