I was delighted when I found the contemporary French philosopher Alain de Botton and his book “The Architecture of Happiness,” about the philosophical and psychological relationship between architecture and our identities.

De Botton writes: “The buildings we admire are ultimately those which, in a variety of ways, extol the values we think... See more

But when architecture falls out of sync with the conditions we live in, home begins to feel more and more precarious. The reason we dislike contemporary architecture is because it fails to achieve this essential purpose, to, as the architect Antonio Sant’Elia put it, “freely and audaciously harmonize man with his environment”.

Sustainability without beauty (think cyberpunk-smartphone-on-wheels type EVs) doesn’t make sense! When something is beautiful, people care about it and take care of it. When something emanates beauty, one can almost feel the care and love that went into it. Beauty, in nature, is an expression of harmony, aliveness and love. Sustainability that

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