A room for writing is not a study. It is a discipline made of dimensions: a window placed where the morning lingers, a wall low enough to lean a thought against, a floor that returns the sound of a chair only once.

Proportion and patience

The proportions of a quiet room are inherited from monastic cells and reading rooms. They are narrow enough to feel held, tall enough to feel free.

Architecture is the careful arrangement of silences.

To design such a room is to choose what may not happen there: no echo, no glare, no distraction sharp enough to cut the line of a sentence.