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Jane Wernick
Building Happiness presents an abundance of views on the nature of happiness within our built environment. Do architectural spaces influence our emotional state and contribute a positive spiritual feeling or are they merely bricks and mortar? Building Happiness explores how we measure and define our happiness and to what extent the space we live in has a significant psychological impact on these evaluations. Taking the initial enquiries to this question from a variety of architects, such as Will Alsop, the thread of this discussion is woven through to the present day with texts and discussions from Kirsty Wark, Glenda Jackson and Richard Wentworth. Building Happiness also features an original interview with Sir Richard Rogers, whose buildings include Centre Pompidou, European Court of Human Rights in Strasburg and the Millennium Dome in London. The book is packed with visual representations in the form of photographs, diagrams and artists work, which reflect on the mood altering effects of the built environment. Building Happiness brings new light to discussions on contemporary architecture and is an ideal title for architects, students and anyone with an interest in the built environment.
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