Inside each of us are memories, fantasies and desires for home - a shelter waiting to be built, a place of peace to be revisited.

I see the task of architecture as the defence of the authenticity of human experience. -Juhani Pallasmaa

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa

It is in the shelter of each other that the people live. -Irish proverb

Without a home, everything is fragmentation. -John Berger

Life begins well. It begins enclosed, protected, all warm in the bosom of the house. -Gaston Bachelard

Although home still represents stability in an unstable world, we're beginning to see that home can be how we live, a situation that we create and recreate. Home is less attached to bricks and mortar and more about the lives we lead, the ways that we connect with each other, the communities we build. Home is a state of mind, something we make for ourselves wherever we can. Hygge is the home we make in the flux and flow of our lives.

An essential ingredient to hygge is the boundary that marks a place or delineates a moment - a fence, a circle of cushions or a stolen half hour.

To curl up belongs to the phenomenology of the verb to inhabit, and only those who have learned to do so can inhabit with intensity. -Gaston Bachelard