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Bleak Houses

Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

By: Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin

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Bleak Houses

Disappointment and Failure in Architecture

By: Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin

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 criticism that values novelty, fame, and virility over fallibility and rejection. As architectural criticism promotes increasingly narrow values, dismissing certain styles wholesale and subjecting buildings to a Victorian litmus test of “real” versus “fake,” Brittain-Catlin explains the effect this superficial criticality has had not only on architectural discourse but on the quality of buildings. The fact that most buildings receive no critical scrutiny at all has resulted in vast stretches of ugly modern housing and a pervasive public illiteracy about architecture.

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MIT Press

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0262528851

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9780262528856

Losers, digital original edition

A BIT of Bleak Houses

By: Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin

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Losers, digital original edition

A BIT of Bleak Houses

By: Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin

The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. It rarely acknowledges the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In this BIT, Timothy Brittain-Catlin writes about the losers. These are architects who were excited by big ideas and inspiring buildings, wanted to re-create in their own work this feeling of greatness, but lacked the talent and the luck to make it happen—Cecil Corwin, for example, Frank Lloyd Wright's friend and professional partner, who was so overwhelmed by Wright's genius that he had to stop designing.

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0262329271

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9780262329279

The Gospel According to Timothy

By: Timothy Tuohy

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The Gospel According to Timothy

By: Timothy Tuohy

Biblically based guide to success, favor, blessing, joy and peace through Jesus' teachings.

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Lulu.com

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1435734017

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9781435734012

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Bleak Houses

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Losers, digital original edition

Losers, digital original edition

The Gospel According to Timothy

The Gospel According to Timothy

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