Bestselling
author tackles the interesting questions of: What makes a house
beautiful? Is it serious to spend your time thinking about home
decoration? Why do people disagree about taste? And can buildings make
us happy?
To
take architecture seriously is to accept that we are, for better and
for worse, different people in different places. De Botton suggests
that it is architecture's task to render vivid to us who we might
ideally be. Turning the spotlight from the humble terraced house to
some of the world's most renowned buildings, de Botton considers how
our private homes and public edifices - from those of Christopher Wren
to those of Le Corbusier and Norman Foster - influence how we feel, as
well as how we could learn to build in ways that would increase our
chances of happiness.
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