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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
Wat zijn architectuur en stedenbouw toch heerlijk onderwerpen!!
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
3.5 stars
Always love Alain’s writing, but this one, while interesting, didn’t grasp at my core. Felt introductory, too brief to be substantive. An appetizer. Provoked some good thoughts that I wished I could have followed a bit deeper.
Always love Alain’s writing, but this one, while interesting, didn’t grasp at my core. Felt introductory, too brief to be substantive. An appetizer. Provoked some good thoughts that I wished I could have followed a bit deeper.
informative
slow-paced
it's been like three months and i'm still not over the hideousness of this cover design.
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
"In essence, what works of design and architecture talk to us about in the kind of life that would most appropriately unfold within and around them. They tell us of certain moods that they seek to encourage and sustain in their inhabitants. While keeping us warm and helping us in mechanical ways, they simultaneously hold out an invitation for us to be specific sorts of people. They speak of visions of happiness."
"The places we call beautiful are ... the work of those rare architects with the humility to interrogate themselves adequately about their desires and the tenacity to translate their fleeting apprehensions of joy into logical plans - a combination that enables them to create environments that satisfy needs we never consciously knew we even had."
"The places we call beautiful are ... the work of those rare architects with the humility to interrogate themselves adequately about their desires and the tenacity to translate their fleeting apprehensions of joy into logical plans - a combination that enables them to create environments that satisfy needs we never consciously knew we even had."
I really enjoyed this book - fairly far afield of my usual fare, so I learned a lot! Certainly had much to take issue with - I always struggle when authors present ideas as facts. In many areas, de Bottom did an excellent job of charting the history of the struggle of ideas, but in other areas stated that the way we feel about certain things was definitively because of x reason, which...ugh. That said, so much I'd love to discuss and I enjoyed so much of the prose. Would definitely recommend to those curious about architecture and how it intersects with our humanity :).