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The Architecture of Happiness

By Alain de Botton

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| Hardcover | 9780241142486

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Book Description

발표하는 작품마다 평단의 찬사와 독자들의 뜨거운 호응을 불러왔던 알랭 드 보통의 2006년 최신작.

무엇이 '집'을 아름답게 하는가? 집이 우리를 행복하게 만들어줄 수 있는가? 건축물들은 우리에게 어떤 영향력을 발휘하고 있는 것일까? 이 책에서 저자는 이러한 질문들을 던지며 우리의 삶 속으로 깊숙이 파고든다.

저자는 소박한 테라스부터 유명한 건축물까지 다양한 사례들을 살펴보면서 건축물들이 우리에게 어떠한 영향을 미치고 있는지, 행복의 가능성을 조금이라도 열기 위한 건축 방법들은 어떤 것인지에 대해 깊이있Continue

Critics

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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