The Architecture of Happiness

FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, APRIL 2008

Copyright © 2006 by Alain de Botton

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton, London, and subsequently published in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:

De Botton, Alain.

The architecture of happiness / Alain de Botton.

p. cm.

1. Architecture—Psychological aspects. 2. Architecture and

society. 3. Architecture—Aesthetics. I. Title.

NA2540.D34 2006

720.1′3—dc22

2006044797

eISBN: 978-0-307-48156-6

Author photograph © Roderick Field

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