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Bleak houses : disappointment and failure in architecture / Timothy Brittain-Catlin.

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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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