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| Acknowledgments | |
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| The Room's Cohesive Integrity | |
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| Visions for the Future, Lessons from the Past | |
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| Spatial Relationships | |
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| The Room Reconsidered | |
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| Context | |
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| Spatial Design | |
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| Common Ground | |
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| Spatial Relationships | |
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| Integrated Design | |
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| Scale-linking | |
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| Using Relationships | |
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| Social Use | |
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| Historical Precedents | |
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| Classical Design | |
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| Putting Historic Precedents and Classical Design in Perspective | |
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| Roman Precedent | |
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| Renaissance Precedent | |
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| Using Precedents | |
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| Humanistic Goals | |
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| Vitruvius | |
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| Alberti | |
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| Palladio | |
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| Serving Human Needs and Desires | |
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| Using the Past | |
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| Synthesis of Separate Scales | |
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| The Room and the City | |
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| City as "Great House" | |
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| House-Organizing Elements | |
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| City-Organizing Elements | |
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| Connotations of City | |
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| Urban Fabric | |
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| Street and Room | |
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| Walking Tour | |
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| City Square as Great Room | |
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| City Center as Dining Room | |
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| Urban Renewal | |
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| Urban Decline | |
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| People as City | |
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| The Future City | |
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| Case Study: Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
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| The Room and the Landscape | |
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| Connotations of Landscape | |
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| The Presence and Influence of the Land | |
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| "Landscaping" Nature | |
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| Landscape as Room | |
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| The Villa as Building and Landscape | |
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| Villa Types | |
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| Roman: Pliny the Younger's Villas | |
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| Renaissance Garden | |
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| Villa Lante | |
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| Natural Park in the City | |
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| Moving through the Landscape | |
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| Viewing the Landscape | |
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| "Outdoor Room" in the City | |
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| "Outdoor Room" in the Building: MoMA'sSculpture Garden | |
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| "Outdoor Room" in the House: The Japanese Garden | |
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| Landscape and the Teahouse | |
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| Landscape and Design | |
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| The Room and the Building | |
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| The Building's Imprint | |
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| The Building's Impact | |
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| Landscape as Building | |
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| The Site | |
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| Procession from Site into Building | |
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| Spatial Sequences | |
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| Natural Light and Window Openings | |
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| Facade | |
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| Doors | |
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| Roofs | |
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| Corridors | |
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| Society of Rooms | |
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| Case Study: Sir John Soane House and Museum | |
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| Experiencing Building Plans | |
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| Synthesis of Separate Phenomena | |
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| The Room and Its Reality | |
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| Connotations of the Room | |
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| Walls (Vertical Planes) | |
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| Discontinuities in the Wall: Columns | |
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| Recesses in the Wall | |
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| Openings in the Wall: Doors and Windows | |
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| Natural Light and the Proper Exposure of Rooms | |
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| Floor (Horizontal Base Plane) | |
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| Changes in Floor: Stairs | |
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| Ceiling (Overhead Plane) | |
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| Space | |
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| The Room and Its Illusion: Part I. The Decorative Program | |
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| Decoration | |
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| The Decorative Program | |
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| Ornamentation | |
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| Manipulating the Senses | |
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| Scent | |
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| Sound | |
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| Material (Texture) | |
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| Artificial Light | |
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| Views | |
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| The Room and Its Illusion: Part II. Color | |
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| Color Theory | |
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| Color Energy | |
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| Color Activates More Than the Sense of Sight | |
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| Color in the City: Florence | |
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| Changing the Colors of Cities | |
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| Changing Colors of Atmosphere | |
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| Changing Colors of Landscape: Monet's Garden | |
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| After Cave Painting, Room Painting: Pompeii | |
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| After Pompeii | |
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| After Nature, Room Painting: Japan | |
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| The Room and its Inhabitants | |
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| Human Body (Outer Self) | |
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| Module | |
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| Proportion | |
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| Scale | |
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| Human Consciousness (Inner Self) | |
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| Qualities That Connect Us to Our Environment | |
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| Human Perception | |
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| Aesthetic Perception | |
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| Synesthesia | |
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| Anesthesia | |
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| The Room and the Objects Within | |
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| The Inhabited Room | |
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| Design Theory and the Object | |
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| Objet d'art, or Decorative Object | |
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| Louis Comfort Tiffany | |
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| The Integrated Object | |
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| Frank Lloyd Wright | |
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| Charles Rennie Mackintosh | |
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| Wiener Werkstatte | |
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| Object: Form versus Space | |
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| Gerrit Rietveld | |
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| Object as Type | |
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| Le Corbusier | |
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| Bauhaus | |
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| Eileen Gray | |
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| Plastics | |
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| Object as Expression | |
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| Gaetano Pesce | |
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| Postmodernism, or Ornamentalism | |
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| The Timeless Object | |
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| Evaluating the Room: Appearance and Experience | |
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| Case Study: "Room for Learning with Latest Technology" | |
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| Room as Community | |
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| Integration | |
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| Case Study: The Museum of Sydney on the site of the First Government House | |