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."
While The Architecture of Happiness may seem like a harmless publication, 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.