●ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT investments in contemporary architecture in the last 15 years has been made by Alain de Botton, the writer and public intellectual who established his reputation young by writing a novel, Essays in Love, published in 1993 just after he had finished studying for his MPhil in Philosophy at King’s College, London. This was followed by How Proust Can Change Your Life in 1997, another bestseller.
In 2006, de Botton published , a book which explores the nature of the relationship between architecture and our moral and
