Architecture of Happiness

Name: Architecture of Happiness
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ISBN: 9780307277244

ISBN-10: 0307277240

ISBN-13: 9780307277244

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alain De Botton, Alain De Botton

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Bestselling author Alain de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices influence how we feel, and how we could build dwellings in which we would stand a better chance of happiness. In this witty, erudite look at how we shape, and are shaped by, our surroundings, Alain de Botton applies Stendhal’s motto that “Beauty is the promise of happiness” to the spaces we inhabit daily. Why should we pay attention to what architecture has to say to us? de Botton asks provocatively. With his trademark lucidity and humour, de Botton traces how human needs and desires have been served by styles of architecture, from stately Classical to minimalist Modern, arguing that the stylistic…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.04" long x 0.49" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English