"Architecture asks us to imagine that happiness might often have an unostentatious, unheroic character to it, that it might be found in a run of old floorboards or in a wash of morning light over a plaster wall."
I am currently reading The Architecture of Happiness and am enjoying every second of it. Alain de Botton states that one of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we are surrounded by. The book offers a tour through the philosophy and psychology of architecture, which aims to change the way we think about our lives. I highly suggest reading this one, if you already haven't.
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