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disseminate.com
Apr 01
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Such works [of architecture] emphasise the truth of the ancient maxim that beauty lies between the extremities of order and complexity. Just as we cannot appreciate the attractions of safety without a background impression of danger, so, too, it is only in a building which flirts with confusion that we can apprehend the scale of our debt to our ordering capacities.
— Alain de Botton - The Architecture of Happiness (2006: McClelland & Stewart)