The Architecture of Happiness

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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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• English Books
• Audio CD
• ISBN-10: 0141806753
• ISBN-13: 9780141806754
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Apr 20, 2006
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
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