The Architecture of Happiness

With The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton tackles architectural design and history, and specifically how our buildings reflect our changing ideas of style, beauty, order and balance. As de Botton puts it, “Belief in the significance of architecture is premised on the notion that we are, for better or for worse, different people in different places — and on the conviction that it is architecture’s task to render vivid to us who we might ideally be.”