Gray and Badovici make it clear that their focus in designing
Villa E.1027 has been on creating what one might call
a ‘considerate’ architecture, an architecture that gives priority
to the enjoyment and comfort (physical and emotional) of the
person inhabiting a building (rather than to abstract theory
or the celebrity of its architect). They allude to satisfying the
abiding desire of all for solitude and emotional peace, for
finding shade and a cooling breeze in the summer, for having
space to entertain friends, for the need to be able to settle to
work undisturbed. They seek to achieve what Alison Smithson