Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture, by Timothy Brittain-Catlin has just been announced as the Times Higher Education book of the week.
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Bleak Houses 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. Brittain-Catlin tells us about 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; about architects whose surviving buildings are marooned and mutilated; and about others who suffered variously from bad temper, exile, lack of talent, lack of documentation, the wrong friends, or being out of fashion.
The MIT Press
ISBN 9780262026697
Published 1 April 2014