The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton. 280 pp.
Christa made this sound interesting when she blogged about it in April. I found it hard to put down once I started it. I particularly enjoyed the parts where he would talk about architects trying to mimic the "feel" of previous styles and getting it all wrong because they focused on the wrong stuff. Also, Le Corbusier was evidently a dick.
I'm glad you liked this. I was feeling kind of nerdy. I liked the short part about Architects and Engineers getting in a snit over who had "say" over design stuff.
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