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What makes a house beautiful? Is it serious to spend your time thinking about home decoration? Why do people disagree about taste? And can buildings make us happy? Our buildings, and the objects we fill them with, affect us more profoundly than we might think. To take architecture seriously is to accept that we are, for better and for worse, different people in different places. De Botton suggests that it is architecture's task to render vivid to us who we might ideally be. Turning the spotlight from the humble terraced house to some of the world's most renowned buildings, de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices, from those of Christopher Wren to those of Le Corbusier and Norman Foster, influence how we feel, as well as how we could learn to build in ways that would increase our chances of happiness.
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What makes a house beautiful? Is it serious to spend your time thinking about home decoration? Why do people disagree about taste? And can buildings make us happy? Our buildings, and the objects we fill them with, affect us more profoundly than we might think. To take architecture seriously is to accept that we are, for better and for worse, different people in different places. De Botton suggests that it is architecture's task to render vivid to us who we might ideally be. Turning the spotlight from the humble terraced house to some of the world's most renowned buildings, de Botton considers how our private homes and public edifices, from those of Christopher Wren to those of Le Corbusier and Norman Foster, influence how we feel, as well as how we could learn to build in ways that would increase our chances of happiness.
Forlag Hamish Hamilton
Utgivelsesår 2006
Format Innbundet
ISBN13 9780241142486
EAN 9780241142486
Språk Engelsk
Sider 280
Utgave 1
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