Working on a project currently that invites comparing spaces to Japanese Garden Design. This book by Sophie Walker is a great introduction.
@willsh How cool. I know very little about Japanese garden design but, based on what little I do know, I like it as an example of when aesthetics act as practical design principles that anyone can understand and follow. If you told a bunch of school kids to design a garden based on Miniaturisation and Concealment, I reckon the results would be recognisably "Japanese". I like the idea of aesthetics as tightly defined principles rather than loosely describing the way something looks.