Bleak houses
Subtitle: disappointment and failure in architecture
By: Timothy Brittain-Catlin
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780262026697
Subjects: Architecture and society; Architecture; Architectural practice; Architectural criticism; Human factors; Failure (Psychology)
Description: 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, 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. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Losers --; title: There is real, and there is fake --; title: Bullies and sissies --; title: Hopelessness --; title: Retrenchment and loss.