Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.

Main entry:

Brittain-Catlin, Timothy.

Title & Author:

Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
©2014

Description:

x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Losers -- There is real, and there is fake -- Bullies and sissies -- Hopelessness -- Retrenchment and loss.

Summary:

The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments andheroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in many ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, TimothyBrittain-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. --Publisher's description.

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ISBN:

9780262026697 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262026694 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262321235
9780262321242 (electronic)
0262321246

Subject:

Architectural criticism.
Architectural practice.
Architecture Human factors.
Architecture and society.
Failure (Psychology)
Critique d'architecture.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Architecture et société.
Échec.
architectural criticism.
Architektur
Architekturkritik
Architekt
Scheitern
Misserfolg
Großbritannien

Holdings:

Location: Library main 285933
Call No.: NA2599.5 .B75 2014
Status: Available

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