The Architecture of Happiness

by Alain De Botton

2006 288 pages eng ★ 3.2 (4 ratings)

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings and streets that surround us.And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often described as frivolous, even self-indulgent. The Architecture of…