BLEAK HOUSES DISAPPOINTMENT AND FAILURE IN ARCHITECTURE

The usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers. But it is also a false narrative in m any ways, rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects. In Bleak Houses, Timothy Brittain-Catlin inv estigates the underside of architecture, the stories of losers and unfulfillment often ignored by an architectural criticism that va lues novelty, fame, and virility over fallibility and rejection. Brittain-Catlin tells us about Cecil Corwin, for example, Frank Llo yd Wrigh...[Read more]