The Elements of Typographic Style A Book by Robert Bringhurst www.goodreads.com Leave the road when you wishTypography exists to honor contentTypographic styleA state of energetic reposeEvenness of color+10 More The utter nothingness of beingThe Elements of Style typography
168. Connection to the Earth Problem A house feels isolated from the nature around it, unless its floors are interleaved directly with the earth that is around the house. Solution Connect the building to the earth around it by building a series of paths and terraces and steps around the edge. Place them deliberately to make the boundary ambiguous—so that it is impossible to say exactly where the building stops and earth begins. Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein & Sara Ishikawa, A Pattern Language Deep Interlock