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Reviews: The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (New York: Pantheon, 2006) and From a Cause to a Style, by Nathan Glazer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)
Harvard Design Magazine
  • Daniel Naegele, Iowa State University
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
4-1-2008
Abstract

One might reasonably expect that Nathan Glazer, in his From a Cause to a Style: Modernist Architecture’s Encounter with the American City, and Alain de Botton, in The Architecture of Happiness, would take many similar positions. Like Jane Jacobs and Robert Venturi in the 1960s, and like many architectural theorists since, both Glazer and De Botton take issue with Modern architecture. However, both books are something other than theory, and neither author is a designer. And unlike Venturi or Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe or Charles Moore, neither proposes architectural solutions to his concerns.

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This book review is from Harvard Design Magazine 28 (2008). Posted with permission.

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President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Citation Information
Daniel Naegele. "Reviews: The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton (New York: Pantheon, 2006) and From a Cause to a Style, by Nathan Glazer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007)" Harvard Design Magazine Vol. 28 (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/daniel_naegele/37/