The Architecture of Happiness Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2014) Using examples from everything from

Using examples from everything from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

attacked the poet Hölderlin

Most women think they have to settle for a life of efficiency and duty

where she fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam

An abandoned orphanage

The Architecture of Happiness Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature for Adult Fiction (2014) Using examples from everything fromThe Achitecture of Happiness is a dazzling and generously illustrated journey through the philosophy and psychology of architecture and the indelible connection between our identities and our locations. One of the great but often unmentioned causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our the kinds of walls, chairs, buildings, and streets that surround us. And yet a concern for architecture is too often described as frivolous, even self