
What Ever Happened to Beauty?



Reverence for beautiful buildings does not seem a high ambition on which to pin our hopes for happiness, at least when compared with the results we might associate with untying a scientific knot or falling in love, amassing a fortune or initiating revolution. To care deeply about a field that achieves so little, and yet consumes so many of our reso
... See moreAlain de Botton • The Architecture of Happiness (Vintage International)

