Bleak Houses: Disappointment and Failure in Architecture
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 1617
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- ISBN
- 9780262026697
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This approximately 60,000-word monograph has been influential on the intellectual agenda – an early example of what is now a series of books by this publisher and others on failure, alternative narratives, and minority voices in architectural history and criticism. Based on 160 published sources, the book addresses the question of forgotten or abandoned narratives in the twentieth century in an unprecedented way and includes an international critique of the modernist mainstream since its roots in the 1830s. It was also one of very few British-authored books from what is considered to be the leading publisher of academic architecture theory.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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