“Is happiness mere technique”? Authors Petr Kapustin Voronezh State Technical University Tatyana Zadvoryanskaya Voronezh State Technical University Downloads PDF (Русский) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/pb.73.06 Keywords: architectural happiness, surrogates of happiness in architecture, psychologism, ontological sources of happiness, desire, traditionalism and progressism in architecture Abstract Architecture has not served consumption for millennia; the “functions” it fulfilled were rather nominal: it was not the function but the mission that prevailed. A mission to organize the afterlife. The fact that all cultures considered burial as a way to eternal and blissful life contributed little to the happiness of the living derived from architecture. The problem of organizing happiness is very “young” in architecture. And it still raises more questions than ready answers. However, this problem uncovers the layers of architectural consciousness and tradition which are difficult or impossible to uncover otherwise. How to Cite Kapustin, P., & Zadvoryanskaya, T. (2022). “Is happiness mere technique”?. Project Baikal, 19(73), 32–39. https://doi.org/10.51461/pb.73.06 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Published 2022-10-21 Issue No. 73 (2022): happiness Section refereed articles License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. References De Botton, A. (2013). The architecture of happiness. How to arrange a living space (P. M. Petrov, Trans.). In Architectural School series. Moscow: Classica-XXI. Eudemon (mythology). Retrieved July 10, 2022, from https://wiki5.ru/wiki/Eudaemon_(mythology) Glazychev, V. L. (2008). Urbanistika [Urbanism]. Moscow: Europe Publishing House. Retrieved July 7, 2022, from http://www.glazychev.ru/books/urbanistika/Glaziychev_Urbanistika.pdf Heidegger, M. (2000). Polozhenie ob osnovanii. Statyi i fragment [The principle of ground. Articles and fragments]. St. Petersburg: Aletheia. Ilf, I., & Petrov, E. Zapisnye knizhki [Notebooks] (2018). Retrieved July 10, 2022, from https://ajushka.livejournal.com/2803438.html Kapustin, P. V. (2011). Alternatives of Ladovsky. Art Studies Magazine, 1-2, 321-347. Kapustin, P. (2019). A century of total reduction. Project Baikal, 16(59), 32-39. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.59.1428 Kapustin, P. V. (2022). Proektirovanie i norma [Design and norm]. Architectural Research. A scholarly journal, 2(30), 4-11. Kapustin, P., & Lesnevska, R. (2018). Strategies of theatricalization in urban interior. Project Baikal, 15(56), 52-58. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.56.1321 La Mettrie, J. O. (1983a). Anti-Seneca, or a discourse on happiness. Moscow: Mysl. La Mettrie, J. O. (1983b). Man a machine. Moscow: Mysl. Ledoux, C. N. (2003). Architecture considered in relation to art, morals and legislation: In 2 vols. (A. A. Barabanov, Ed.) (Vol. 1). Ekaterinburg: Arkhitekton-Kanon. Lester, R. C. (1996). Buddhism: The path to Nirvana (A. N. Koval, Trans.). In Religious Traditions of the World: In two volumes (Vol. 2, pp. 264-394). Moscow: KRON-PRESS. Rand, A. (2018). The Fountainhead. Moscow: Alpina Publishers. Scott-Brown, D. (1981). With people in mind. Journal of Architectural Education, 35:1, 43-45. Speer, A. (2005). Inside the Third Reich. Memoirs of the Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production. Moscow: ZAO Tsentrpoligraf. Zadvoryanskaya, T. I. (2018). Phenomenon of the global city: The definition, characteristics, urban-generative process and city-forming environment. Architecture and Construction of Russia, 3(227), 96-101.