In Alain de Botton’s The Architecture of Happiness, there is a passage where he considers the apparent failure of architecture as a device for making us better people.
Btw, we have great pics of "instructive" architecture: a chapel in Portugal entirely decorated in human bones (the walls and ceilings are completely covered, to the square inch) where one may contemplate one's mortality.
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Btw, we have great pics of "instructive" architecture: a chapel in Portugal entirely decorated in human bones (the walls and ceilings are completely covered, to the square inch) where one may contemplate one's mortality.
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