Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture /
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 architectu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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| 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, 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. -- Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 182 σ. : εικ.; 24 εκ. |
| Bibliography: | Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφικές αναφορές και ευρετήριο. |
| ISBN: | 9780262026697 |
