Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture - Paperbackby Timothy J. Brittain Catlin (Author) 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