Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.


The Architecture of Happiness (ed. Penguin UK, 2007) - ISBN: 9780141930251

Alain de Botton Quotes

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies...

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies...

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies...

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies...