From this Chapter:
It should be mentioned briefly here that the experience the Reynolds had, living for more than a week in the guest house of the Mâche Vacation House on Amorgos, left many indelible impressions. Perhaps foremost among them was the non-rectilinearity of the spaces one was inhabiting. The convention of rectangular room shape is surely one of the most prevalent, and in some ways coercive, determinants of the nature of everyone’s days. Southern Californian life invites, to a degree mandates, an open connectivity, and interactivity with the natural surroundings. Windows and doors are almost always open. One is often out of doors. This contrast strongly with the experience of more northern living in the Northern Hemisphere, where the majority of time is spent in enclosed spaces, virtually always with flat floors and ceilings, uniformly vertical walls that intersect at right angles, shaping in particular and largely uniform ways the patterns of everyday movement. To the contrary, the feeling that one has in smaller-scaled room enclosures whose curved walls advance and retreat in relation to ones movements is explicitly soothing, welcoming, embracing. These adjectives seem odd as they are written, but memory supports their space.