Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture /
Brittain-Catlin, Timothy,
Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture / Timothy Brittain-Catlin. - 192 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists. The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In 'Bleak Houses', Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an architectural criticism that values novelty, fame, and virility over fallibility and rejection.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780262321259 (ebook)
Architectural criticism.
Architectural practice.
Architecture--Human factors.
Architecture and society.
Failure (Psychology)
Architecture and Planning.
Theory of architecture
Architecture
Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture / Timothy Brittain-Catlin. - 192 pages : illustrations (black and white)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists. The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In 'Bleak Houses', Timothy Brittain-Catlin investigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an architectural criticism that values novelty, fame, and virility over fallibility and rejection.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780262321259 (ebook)
Architectural criticism.
Architectural practice.
Architecture--Human factors.
Architecture and society.
Failure (Psychology)
Architecture and Planning.
Theory of architecture
Architecture