本书初版于1957年。在现代主义晚期建筑文化快要窒息的氛围中，此书从现象学和象征意义的角度，对建筑展开了独到的思考和想象。作者认为，空间并非填充物体的容器，而是人类意识的居所，建筑学就是栖居的诗学。书中最精彩之处，莫过于对亲密空间的描绘与想象。他指出，家是人在世界的角落，家的意象反映了亲密、孤独、热情的意象。我们在家屋之中，家屋也在我们之内。我们诗意地建构家屋，家屋也灵性地建构我们。(This book was first published in 1957. Under the atmosphere where the late modern architectural culture is almost suffocating, the book launches a unique thinking and imagination from the perspective of phenomenology and symbolic significance of the building. The author thinks that space is not the container for filling objects, but the residence of human consciousness and architecture is the poetics of dwelling. The most exciting part of this book is the description and imagination to the intimate space. He points out that the home is the corner for people in the world, the image of the home reflects the intimate, lonely and enthusiastic conditions. We are in our houses and our houses are within us. We poetically construct the house, the house also spiritually construct us.)