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The Architecture of Happiness
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Alain de Botton. |
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Hamish Hamilton |
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hardcover
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| Product Dimensions |
8.4 x 6.3 x 1.2 inches
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| ISBN |
9780241142486 |
| Pages/Publication Date |
280/2006 |
| Daedalus Item Code |
81494 |
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What makes a house beautiful? Why do people disagree about taste? Can buildings make us happy? Here the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life tackles a relationship that is central to our lives. Our buildings and the objects we fill them with, according to Alain de Botton, affect us more profoundly than we might think. Examining architecture, from the humble terraced house to some of the world's most renowned buildings, de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, as well as how architects could build in ways that would increase our chances of happiness. "If this book were a building, it would be a contemporary reading room, I think, with big windows, and clean, built-in bookshelves with a fold-out step ladder just right for fetching slim volumes from the top shelf. The elegant clarity and brisk humour of his style, accompanied by pages of photos, opens your eyes to the rich possibility of thinking about your home, and your city, in a new way."—The Toronto Star
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