The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $18.00
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 Happiness starts from...
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The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: April 8, 2008
Price: $18.00
The Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations.
One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kinds of walls, chairs...
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The Architecture of Happiness
Written by Alain De Botton
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
On Sale: October 3, 2006
Price: $26.95
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 Happiness starts from...
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Uncontrollable Beauty
Toward a New Aesthetics
Written by David Shapiro
Edited by Bill Beckley
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2001
Price: $24.95
In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.
Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as...
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