architecture of happiness

clip from alain de botton's series on how architecture reflects our ideals. he's showing us around some new developments in the netherlands.

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Education

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• architecture
• netherlands
• alain
• de
• botton

[janco333]

Visiting britian is like visitig your grand parents. The houses are just like the weather - depressing.

[michelangeli23]

de botton is amazing!

[insomniacgrace]

Thanks for having this video posted. This is of great help for everyone's awareness. Imba kaayo bai.

[310sucks]

Those boxy modern houses are just as ugly.

[KEPHALLE]

@thatsmyrail TRUE, but not in this case

[thatsmyrail]

@KEPHALLE The truth is, in the Nederlands, nature stands very high on the agenda. Modernism and nature are perfectly compatible.

[KEPHALLE]

i know this kind of living quarters are supposed to host many people in a relatively small surface, but, to my taste i could never live in a place where nature is implanted in left over space, or drawn in between buildings. as i personally see a good living space should be developed starting from nature, buildings to be obtained in spaces between green areas, expecially trees and luxuriant greenery. i'm open to conversation and confrontation about this subject anyway!

[SuperBrettoo]

you should see some of australias housing devolopments... suburban sprawl... yuuk .. think outside the box.. well done holland

[fmr225]

enlighting video, I will try the book now!

[TheScriptorium]

Really amazing !