The Architecture of Failure

by Douglas Murphy and Douglas Murphy

Against those who considerarchitecture to be a wholly optimistic activity, this book shows how the history of modern architecture is inextricably tied to ideas of failure and ruin. By means of an original reading of the earliest origins of modernism, the Architecture of Failure exposes the ways in which failure has been suppressed, ignored and denied in the way we design our cities. It examines the 19th century fantasy architecture of the iron and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780990227
• ISBN13: 9781780990224
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"