Pritzker winner says buildings should make you happy

Definitely buildings should make you feel happy! Unfortunately, reality is very different as we live in boxes with absolutely no aesthetic value!

"Having spent a lot of time in Japan, what I suggest (as the reason) is Japanese culture's relationship to nature that enables this sort of sensitive contribution that Japanese architecture has made,"

Where does he get this tripe? He must be blind or saw only what he wanted to see or wants to suck up to somebody. There is so much architectural brutalisation of natural beauty. It's mostly like nature doesn't or shouldn't exist.

Pubs are buildings....they make me happy !

Japanese homes become smaller and smaller and those around larger cities pricier and pricier and we become unhappier and….

not says happiness more than concrete.

He needs to start desiging buildings and homes all over the country then. The last six houses that have been put up in my neighborhood have all been aesthetically unattractive square boxes with nothing that makes one "feel happy".

Congratulations. Using resources of nature and culture to offer roof and shelter to needy citizens of the Planet is a noble mission.