Reviewed by Ayla LepineMIT PRESS, 192pp, £17.95Tablet bookshop price £16.20                 Tel 01420 592974Most of us fear failure. Timothy Brittain-Catlin’s pithy, rigorous and sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious account of the struggle for success in architecture is a disarming exploration of an unexplored aspect of this common fear. Brittain-Catlin, a some-time architect who teaches architectural history at the University of Kent, has poured a lifetime of keen-eyed observation and occasional heartache into a book that transforms the way we look at even the most mundane and apparently uninspiring of buildings.Bleak Houses is broadly British in scope although its case studies stretch into America and