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Alain de Botton, Architecture of Happiness, Penguin

'The Architecture of Happiness' amounts to a beguiling tour through philosophy and the psychology of architecture. It is also Alain de Botton's most lavishly illustrated text book. Probing questions and myriad examples of historic and contemporary buildings explore our relationship with the buildings we live in.