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The Architecture of Happiness
The Architecture of Happiness is a book by Alain de Botton () which discusses the importance of beauty, published by Pantheon Books in 2006. De Botton, inspired by Stendhal's motto "beauty is the promise of happiness," analyzes human surroundings and how human needs and desires manifest their ideals in architecture.
Reception.
The book attracted favourable attention from architects and architectural critics. In the "Boston Globe", the architectural critic Robert Campbell declared it the "best introduction to architecture"
In 2002, Aaker shifted her research focus to understanding time, money, and happiness. In this work, she suggested that time is a resource that, like money, is not only important but more subjective than we think. In 2010, she published two papers with Sep Kamvar and Cassie Mogilner on the dynamic meaning of happiness. Prior research had suggested that the meaning of happiness is either similar across individuals or highly subjective and idiosyncratic. Aaker and her colleagues show that the answer lies between the two and that there is