(These are my notes from Sarah’s talk at the Intel HCPI 2 conference.)

Sarah Susanka – The Not So Big House

The “away room” – a quiet, separated place with a visual connection (glass doors, for example) to where things are happening (the family room, for example).

A place of one’s own – Concept presented in “A Pattern Language” by Christopher Alexander

She described several new principles of design and expressed a need for new language for describing those principles.