Do aesthetic and functional attributes of your home make you happy? Do the exterior and interior architectural characteristics of your workplace induce feelings of contentment and optimism each day ...

Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings ...

The inspiration behind the exhibition was ignited by conversations with artist Simon Fujiwara and his work The Happy Museum at the Berlin Biennale. Gradually, Garutti started “finding happiness” in ...

Can buildings make us happy? Oddly, it's easier to come up with architecture-induced unhappiness -- a selfish neighbor throws up a McMansion that blots out everyone else's view, a brutal new parking ...

Alain de Botton’s latest book, The Architecture of Happiness, meditates on the meaning and purpose of architecture, all the while trying to get at the question of just what makes one building ...