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Events and ObservationsMay 14, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES May 14, 2021 Review: Given the memorial capacities of architecture, it cannot be coincidental that in many of the world’s cultures, the earliest and most significant words have been...
May 7, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES May 7, 2021 Review: The moral equation between beauty and goodness lent to all architecture a new seriousness and importance. In admiring the noble patina of a mature wooden floor, we would...
April 30, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 30, 2021 Review: We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for avulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind,...
April 23, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 23, 2021 Review: To call a work of architecture or design beautiful is to recognize it as a rendition of values critical to ourflourishing, a transubstantiation of our individual...
April 9, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 9, 2021 Review:In essence, what works of…architecture talk to us about is the kind of life that would most appropriately unfold within and around them. They tell us certain moods that...
April 2, 2021 | The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Button
Discussion Notes for Friday AM Discussion Group | (the A.M.s)DISCUSSION NOTES April 2, 2021 Review: It may be easy to laugh at the grandiloquence of claims directed at objects which on occasion resemble giant earplugs or upturned lawnmowers. But, instead of accusing...