Alain de Botton’s Living Architecture project - a joyful, democratically-minded concept to share quality architecture in the UK - was borne out of personal crisis. The Swiss-born philosopher and ...

CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: The words "best-selling" and "philosopher" usually don't appear in the same sentence, unless you're Alain de Botton. The thinker, author and TV presenter has clearly tapped a ...

“Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design,” writes pop philosopher Alain de Botton in his heartfelt case for good building, 2006’s The Architecture of Happiness.

Britain's most semicolon-happy philosopher, Alain de Botton, has a new volume out February 6. The News: A User's Manual broaches the problems of twenty-first century media outlets with de Botton's ...