Interview with Alain de Botton, Architecture of Happiness Author
Monday, Aug. 9th 2010 6:56 AM
“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design,” writes pop philosopher Alain de Botton in his heartfelt case for good building, 2006’s The Architecture of Happiness.
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