A review by dnae
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton

4.0

Readable and simple ideas but explained well. Like Bachelard but without all the bad qualities that makes his writing literally incomprehensible. A great examination of the mundanities of the spaces we occupy and how, and why, they matter. Some of the writing just passed over my head a lot but I'm not sure if that's a me problem or the writing gets a little bland and repetitive at times. Very Western-centric (and also, what is it with the West's obsession with Japanese architecture only?). It was an okay book.