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Allen de Botton writes about architecture as a living environment that not only determines the current mood of a resident or guest, not only reflects and exposes their traits, aspirations, habits, but also determines the future to a certain extent. After all, the way we feel in our bedroom or library affects our attitude to the wider world, our vision of our own future, and our willingness to fight for it.

The reader will learn about the styles and tastes inherent in different eras and how they characterise the people who planned and built the landmark buildings, lived in them, and changed them according to their ideas of beauty and comfort. This is an amazing combination of cultural and sociological research and philosophy, the basic knowledge that will help you both "read" architecture and inhabit your own space.