Living in a Small Space does not intend to provide any patent recipes for the minimum amount of living space. The number of square meters is relative. The minimum itself changes according to local conditions: city and country, landscape and climate. Architects in Europe and the Far East, the USA and Australia illustrate, ambitiously and at a high level of quality, that a subjectively positive sense of space is more dependent on light and sun, air and warmth than on a defined minimum number of square meters. And that it is dependent on clever organization of individual needs, optimum use of space and on functions that are precisely tailored to the dimensions of the limited space." "Architects like Gabriel Poole, Jan Kaplicki, Carlo Baumschlager, Dietmar Eberle, Adolf Krischanitz or Ivano Gianola open a new chapter of exemplary minimalist solutions, comparable with Le Corbusier's house in Corseaux-Vevey, 1923/24, Gerrit Rietveld's Schroeder House in Utrecht, 1924, or J. J. P. Oud's row-houses in Stuttgart's Weissenhofsiedlung, 1927, which show Modernism en miniature. The more recent architects also make coming to terms with a small space into a manifesto of their personal view of architecture. At all time and everywhere the skill has lain in implementing social and functional requirements ambitiously in terms of aesthetics. Japanese architects in particular have made this into a fine art. They are a particular focus of attention, with buildings by Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Waro Kishi, Riken Yamamoto and others.