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Bleak houses is a unique guide through architectures 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 catlins virgil inducts the reader in architectures vast lacunae of the mediocre the disappointed and the sad. Bleak houses disappointment and failure in architecture the mit press paperback february 12 2016 by timothy j brittain catlin author 43 out of 5 stars 5 ratings see all 11 formats and editions. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for bleak houses disappointment and failure in architecture the mit press at amazoncom read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Bleak houses disappointment and failure in architecture by timothy brittain catlin mit press april 2014 192 p ill isbn 9780262026697 cl 2495 included are black and white photographs to illustrate failure in architecture along with endnotes a bibliography and an index . Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings and what architecture critics can learn from noveliststhe usual history of architecture is a grand narrative of soaring monuments and heroic makers but it is also a false narrative in many ways rarely acknowledging the personal failures and disappointments of architects in bleak houses timothy brittain catlin investigates the