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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  The architecture of happiness

  -I was expecting something else about this book. I thought that it will show me more concepts about ho whappiness is understood, but it was another kind of essay.

  In this book, De Botton shows us how he thinks the constructions or buildings that surrounds us can influence our animic state. This is ... (continue)

  -I was expecting something else about this book. I thought that it will show me more concepts about ho whappiness is understood, but it was another kind of essay.

  In this book, De Botton shows us how he thinks the constructions or buildings that surrounds us can influence our animic state. This is interesting, but sometimes I felt a little tired reading this author.

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• English Books
• Audio CD
• ISBN-10: 1433222949
• ISBN-13: 9781433222948
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
• Pub date: Mar 01, 2009
• Dimensions: 1065 mm x 1000 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?

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