"But the new generation of house designs takes a different view of the role of rooms, space and usage. The idea that a house was more than a shelter led the influential Swiss designer and thinker Le Corbusier to describe the house as a "machine for living in" in 1923. From his philosophy of architecture flowed the idea that we can improve our lives by standardising and rationalising the design of our houses. But by 1969, the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard was writing: "If I were asked to name the chief benefits of the house, I should say the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
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