Posts Tagged ‘Alain de Botton’

In choice between architectural creativity and comformity, author de Botton finds comfort in more of the same

Many of us know, or think we know, why we love or hate particular people, places or things. But architecture? One building strikes us as a vision of loveliness, another as a horror, but if asked to explain ourselves, a lot of us shrug and resort to the old standby, “I know what I like.”
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006 In Architecture, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,