...Alain de Botton's The Architecture of Happiness is strangely old-fashioned. It is written beautifully and well researched, but underneath its aesthetically yearning, disillusioned surface, the argument firming up seems almost exactly that of HRH's A Vision of Britain, but without the balls, and with a different outcome. De Botton is slightly suspicious of late neo-classicism and prefers Herzog & de Meuron, and - against the odds and I bet he'll regret it later - Calatrava. Building Design
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