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The Architecture of Happiness

By Alain de Botton

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| Paperback | 9780141015002

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Book Description

Bestselling author, Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now, he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks: What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houContinue

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Dream Houses

We can happily live with disagreements of taste when it comes to art, or poetry, or music. I listen to Abba on my iPod, you listen to Brahms on yours, and everybody’s content. But architecture is different. If I build a Zaha Hadid deconstructed-boome ... (read full critics)

nytimes published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

Beauties and eyesores

To call him a polymath would be a gross slander. Alain de Botton knows everything. Sim- ple as that. He’s just far too modest to admit it. And I’m happy to report that his great mission to turn every facet of civilisation into a coffee-table book con ... (read full critics)

spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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As always, De Botton writes with flair and elegance on his chosen topic. I was particularly looking forward to this book as I caught an episode of his television series "The Perfect Home", where he visited various locales and offered biting critique on their architecture. The book is quite different ... (continue)

As always, De Botton writes with flair and elegance on his chosen topic. I was particularly looking forward to this book as I caught an episode of his television series "The Perfect Home", where he visited various locales and offered biting critique on their architecture. The book is quite different, however, as he spends most of the time talking about the philosophy of architecture and reserves his critiques to the last chapter.

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