The Architecture Of Happiness

Author : Alain de Botton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780141930251

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The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton Pdf

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love and The School of Life, this book explores the fascinating hidden links between the buildings we live in and our long-term wellbeing. 'Engaging and intelligent . . . Full of splendid ideas, happily and beautifully expressed' Independent What makes a house truly beautiful? Why are many new houses so ugly? Why do we argue so bitterly about sofas and pictures - and can differences of taste ever be satisfactorily resolved? To answer these questions and many more, de Botton looks at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers; he examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights. The Architecture of Happiness will take you on a beguiling tour through the history and psychology of architecture and interior design, and will change the way you look at your home. 'Alain de Botton takes big, complex subjects and writes about them with thoughtful and deceptive innocence' Observer 'Clever, provocative and fresh as a daisy' Literary Review

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21T22:59:00Z
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9798822537309

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Summary of Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The house on the street is a prime example of how architecture can contribute to our happiness. It has endured a lot over the years, but it still stands strong and dignified. It has provided not only physical but also psychological sanctuary. #2 The world’s most intelligent people have disdained any interest in decoration and design, equating contentment with discarnate and invisible matters. A concern for architecture has never been free from suspicion. #3 We seem to have an urge to numb ourselves to our surroundings, but we also have an urge to acknowledge the significance of our locations. We believe that architecture can help us realize who we might ideally be. #4 We are sometimes eager to celebrate the influence of our surroundings. But sensitivity to architecture also has its problematic aspects. We can’t remain sensitive indefinitely to environments that we don’t have the means to alter for the good.

Author : PenZen Summaries
Publisher : by Mocktime Publication
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Summary of The Architecture of Happiness – [Review Keypoints and Take-aways] by PenZen Summaries Pdf

The summary of The Architecture of Happiness – Explore the hidden links between buildings and our well being presented here include a short review of the book at the start followed by quick overview of main points and a list of important take-aways at the end of the summary. The Summary of The topic of discussion in the 2006 book titled "The Architecture of Happiness" is the relationship that humans have with regard to design and construction. These ideas explain why different people prefer specific buildings, how design speaks to us, and how we can use architecture to bring out the best in ourselves. They also show how architecture can be used to bring out the best in others. The Architecture of Happiness summary includes the key points and important takeaways from the book The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton. Disclaimer: 1. This summary is meant to preview and not to substitute the original book. 2. We recommend, for in-depth study purchase the excellent original book. 3. In this summary key points are rewritten and recreated and no part/text is directly taken or copied from original book. 4. If original author/publisher wants us to remove this summary, please contact us at [email protected].

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Signal
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780771027680

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The News by Alain De Botton Pdf

From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a thought-provoking look at the position that news has achieved in our lives. The news is everywhere. We can't stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really taught how to make sense of the torrent of news we face every day, writes Alain de Botton, but this has a huge impact on our sense of what matters and of how we should lead our lives. In his dazzling new book, de Botton takes twenty-five archetypal news stories--including an airplane crash, a murder, a celebrity interview and a political scandal--and submits them to unusually intense analysis with a view to helping us navigate our news-soaked age. He raises such questions as: Why are disaster stories often so uplifting? What makes the love lives of celebrities so interesting? Why do we enjoy watching politicians being brought down? Why are upheavals in far-off lands often so boring? In The News: A User's Manual, de Botton has written the ultimate guide for our frenzied era, certain to bring calm, understanding and a measure of sanity to our daily (perhaps even hourly) interactions with the news machine.

Author : Ulrich Fürst
Publisher : Edition Axel Menges
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3930698609

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The Architecture of Rome by Ulrich Fürst Pdf

Architects and artists have always acknowledged over the centuries that Rome is rightly called the 'eternal city'. Rome is eternal above all because it was always young, always 'in its prime'. Here the buildings that defined the West appeared over more than 2000 years, here the history of European architecture was written. The foundations were laid even in ancient Roman times, when the first attempts were made to design interiors and thus make space open to experience as something physical. And at that time the Roman architects also started to develop building types that are still valid today, thus creating the cornerstone of later Western architecture. In it Rome's primacy remained unbroken -- whether it was with old St Peter's as the first medieval basilica or new St. Peter's as the building in which Bramante and Michelangelo developed the High Renaissance, or with works by Bernini and Borromini whose rich and lucid spatial forms were to shape Baroque as far as Vienna, Bohemia and Lower Franconia, and also with Modern buildings, of which there are many unexpected pearls to be found in Rome. All this is comprehensible only if it is presented historically, i. e. in chronological sequence, and so the guide has not been arranged topographically as usual but chronologically.This means that one is not led in random sequence from a Baroque building to an ancient or a modern one, but the historical development is followed successively. Every epoch is preceded by an introduction that identifies its key features. This produces a continuous, lavishly illustrated history of the architecture of Rome -- and thus at the same time of the whole of the West. Practical handling is guaranteed by an alphabetical index and detailed maps, whose information does not just immediately illustrate the historical picture, but also makes it possible to choose a personal route through history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X030047737

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Blueprint by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1946 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:39015066156806

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The Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:846590411

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Blue Book by Daniel Cole Pdf

Alain De Botton writes in The Architecture of Happiness, that "any object of design will give off an impression of the psychological and moral attitudes it supports." Interpreting design then is done by understanding the attitudes of the designer, which either will or will not resonate with the viewer. I may consider the formal and conceptual merits of an object of design, but ultimately my attitudes determine whether the object will have resonance with me. These "attitudes" are, anthropologically speaking, values: what a person finds most good, proper, or desirable in life. Values are the key to the creation of objects of design that resonate. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into my values and refine their manifestation in my work. By defining those values, I can examine how my work might resonate with others.

Author : Edward Winters
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015064992780

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Aesthetics and Architecture by Edward Winters Pdf

A sophisticated but engaging look at the debates and ideas involved in the aesthetics of architecture - part of a major new series from Continuum's philosophy list.

Author : Michelangelo Antonioni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Motion picture producers and directors
ISBN : UOM:39015037846709

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The Architecture of Vision by Michelangelo Antonioni Pdf

Widely acclaimed as the consummate filmmaker's filmmaker, few post-war figures in world cinema have been as influential as Michelangelo Antonioni on directors and screenwriters coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s. His 1995 Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement marks the long-overdue, official recognition of a fifty-year career of rare talent and innovation. Here, for the first time in English, Antonioni's writings and interviews on cinema are available in a collection which is an homage to its author and a major contribution to the appreciation of his work. The Architecture of Vision is an indispensable tool for understanding the work of a cinematic giant whose investigation of the "crisis" of individuals and groundbreaking use of "visual minimalism" remains unique in contemporary culture.

Author : Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Happiness
ISBN : HARVARD:HNNN6U

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The Quest of Happiness by Philip Gilbert Hamerton Pdf

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Signal
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771027635

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The Course of Love by Alain De Botton Pdf

From the author of the international bestsellers Essays in Love, The Architecture of Happiness, and How Proust Can Change Your Life, comes a novel that explores with trademark warmth and wit the complex landscape of a modern relationship. Rabih and Kirsten meet, fall in love, get married. Society tells us this is the end of the story. In fact, it is only the beginning. Over the years this ordinary couple will miscommunicate and misunderstand each other, will worry about money, will have first a girl and then a boy. One of them will have an affair, one will think about it. Both will have doubts. This will be the real love story. Twenty-first century depictions of love and marriage are shaped by a set of Romantic myths and misconceptions. With philosophical insight and psychological acumen, Alain de Botton presents a realistic case study for marriage and examines what it might mean to love, to be loved -- and to stay in love.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133528690

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'Scape by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dale Mulfinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architects
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018255096

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The Architecture of Edwin Lundie by Dale Mulfinger Pdf

Throughout a fifty-year career in St. Paul, architect Edwin H. Lundie (1886-1972) designed more than three hundred projects, predominantly residences. His architectural designs, along with the Prairie School inventions of Purcell and Elmslie and the modernist themes of Ralph Rapson, are collectively considered the best work of Minnesota architects in the 20th century. What set Lundie apart from his colleagues was his devotion to detail and love of fine craftsmanship. This book documents Lundie's architecture through color photography, plan graphics, and his drawings and renderings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Arts
ISBN : UVA:X030047724

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Azure by Anonim Pdf