Simplicity in Music Description Read: Botton, Alain de. “The Virtues of Buildings” in The Architecture of Happiness (Hamish Hamilton, London, 2006) 83 – 123. Answer: 1.In “Virtues of Buildings,” Alain de Botton compares the virtues of buildings to being as slippery to define as virtues in humans: “Analogising architecture with […]