Specifications For Practical Architecture Preceded By An Essay On The Decline Of Excellence In The Structure And In The Science Of Modern English Buildings Second Edition
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Author | : Alfred Bartholomew |
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Total Pages | : 878 |
Release | : 1846 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Author | : Joseph Gwilt |
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Total Pages | : 1476 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Architects |
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Author | : John Leaning |
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Total Pages | : 666 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Buildings |
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Author | : Canada. Library of Parliament |
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Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque |
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Total Pages | : 1096 |
Release | : 1857 |
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Author | : Great Britain. Patent Office. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Industrial arts |
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Author | : Manchester (England). Joint Architectural Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : Architecture |
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Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Henry George Bohn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2130 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Booksellers' catalogs |
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Author | : Timothy J. Brittain-Catlin |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2014-02-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0262321254 |
Why some architects fail to realize their ideal buildings, and what architecture critics can learn from novelists. The 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 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. As architectural criticism promotes increasingly narrow values, dismissing certain styles wholesale and subjecting buildings to a Victorian litmus test of “real” versus “fake,” Brittain-Catlin explains the effect this superficial criticality has had not only on architectural discourse but on the quality of buildings. The fact that most buildings receive no critical scrutiny at all has resulted in vast stretches of ugly modern housing and a pervasive public illiteracy about architecture.