A look at how our environment and the perfect home can philosophically affect our happiness, and how innovative architecture can contribute to the perfect home.
Where to Watch The Perfect Home • Season 1
3 Episodes
Episode 1
E1
Episode 1Alain de Botton went in search of answers to our housing crisis, and came up with some suggestions for the perfect home: a kind of architecture that can make us happy as our environments determine how we feel.
Episode 2
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Episode 2Alain de Botton suggests that most new houses are built in appalling taste - and that, with a housing deficit of around a million homes, this country urgently needs to wake up to the merits of good design.
Episode 3
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Episode 3In the final programme, Alain de Botton travels to Holland and Japan, to see how different our homes could look. He argues for houses that help us to see the world as a place to feel at home in, rather than to fear.
