Kent School of Architecture is proud to announce that Timothy Brittain-Catlin’s new book Bleak Houses has been published. Timothy Brittain-Catlin is a senior lecturer at Kent School of Architecture and his writing has appeared in many publications including the Architectural Review.<\/p>\n
Bleak Houses investigates the underside f 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\u2019s friend and professional partner, who was so overwhelmed by Wright\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cBleak Houses is a unique guide through architecture\u2019s own disconsolate circles of hell, from the hopelessness of revivalism to the curse of the mutilating extension. At once comic and bitter, wry and lachrymose, Brittain-Catlin\u2019s Virgil inducts the reader in architecture\u2019s vast lacunae of the mediocre, the disappointed and the sad. In speaking to and for the many buildings for which there is no discourse because they merit none, he skilfully reveals how failure can be a whole lot more illuminating than success. This book will make a lot of architects, myself included, feel very uncomfortable indeed.\u201d
\n\u2014Francesca Hughes<\/p>\n
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