The Architecture of Happiness would be an innocuous castoff if not for its proselytizing ambitions (it has so far spawned a PBS miniseries) and a set of rather insidious ideas camouflaged in its twee prose."
The Architecture of Happiness may appear to be a harmless book, but it actually promotes a set of influential ideas that have been further explored in a PBS miniseries, and these concepts are cleverly disguised within its pleasant writing style.