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Alain de Botton: The Architecture of Happiness (2006, Pantheon) 3 stars

One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the …

Review of 'The Architecture of Happiness' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

This reads as a hodge-podge clipping book of Alain's thoughts on architecture. There's an almost-synthesis that starts sounding like architecture should be designed to compensate for people's neuroses, but it fell short of a complete theory. I think there are some gems here, but they need to be polished into a coherent whole.