Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture /

• Main Author: Brittain-Catlin, Timothy (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
• Subjects: Αρχιτεκτονική > Κριτική; Αρχιτεκτονική πρακτική; Αρχιτεκτονική > Ανθρώπινοι παράγοντες; Αρχιτεκτονική και κοινωνία

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...