The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage International)

the goal of encouraging the same kind of emotional engagement with architecture and design that people expect to have with art.

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is the desire to hold on to it: to possess it and give it weight in our lives. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.’

find a fresh and different way of using architecture to produce the sensations of satisfaction, comfort, and pleasure that more traditional buildings did.