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Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brittain-Catlin, Timothy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architectural criticism.
- Architectural practice.
- Architecture--Human factors.
- Architecture.
- Architecture and society.
- Failure (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- x, 182 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Losers; 2 There Is Real and There Is Fake; 3 Bullies and Sissies; 4 Hopelessness; 5 Retrenchment and Loss; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262026697 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780262321259
- 0262321254
- 9780262026697
- 0262026694
- 9780262321242
- 0262321246
- OCLC:
- 870646888
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