Bleak Houses
Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
12 February 2016
Summary
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 crit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262528856 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262528851 |
| Author: | Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 12 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 11mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
…this is one of the most intriguing, original and gently provocative books on the meaning of architecture for some while.
…there are few books I can think of that describe the emotional engagement with architecture with such acuity. And despite the subject, Bleak Houses is anything but a bleak read.
—Richard Williams, The Times Higher Education…this is one of the most intriguing, original and gently provocative books on the meaning of architecture for some while.
—Architecture Review…It’s a book that all who not only write on architecture but who also have a genuine interest in the welfare of the historic built environment ought to read.
—Alex Bremner, The VictorianAbout The Author
Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin
Timothy Brittain-Catlin is a Reader at Kent School of Architecture, University of Kent. His writing has appeared in The World of Interiors, Architectural Review, and many other publications.
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