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Alain de Botton on The Aesthetics of Architecture

Philosophy Bites

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Is Good Architecture a Moral Force?

The way a building might seem to promise to make your life go better. But there's also a sense of the potential moral force of buildings. I think that proposal that form should follow a function has been one of the great red herrings of modernist architecture. Good architecture is a suggestion about good behavior, but nothing more nor less than that.

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