jaclyn_youngblood 's review for:

The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

3.0

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There were a few incredibly poignant lines in de Botton's offering. I enjoyed the poetic waxing about architecture and the humility we can find therein, but I'm not entirely sure of the book's coherence or path. I mostly enjoyed the historical tangents about Le Corbusier trying to build 60-story skyscrapers in the middle of Paris, Christopher Wren trying to save London from itself, etc. I'm not sure to whom I'd recommend this; not architects, likely.