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elvanavle 's review for:
The Architecture of Happiness
by Alain de Botton
"The failure of architects to create congenial environments mirrors our inability to find happiness in other areas of our lives. Bad architecture is in the end as much a fialure of psychology as of design. In architecture, as in so much else, we cast around explanations to our troubles and fix on platidunious targets. We get angry when we should realise we are sad and tear down ancient streets when we ought instead to introduce proper sanitation and street lights. We learn the wrong lessons from our griefs while grasping in vain for the origins of contentment."