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From Bauhaus to Our House

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom WolfePublish date:11/24/09Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312429140ISBN-10:312429142UPC:9780312429140Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:History, CriticismBook Topic:Contemporary (1945 -)Size:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCCHB57D4S

After critiquing--and infuriating--the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.

In this examination of the strange saga of twentieth century architecture, Wolfe takes such European architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus art school founder Walter Gropius to task for their glass and steel box designed buildings that have influenced--and infected--America's cities.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312429140ISBN-10:312429142UPC:9780312429140Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:History, CriticismBook Topic:Contemporary (1945 -)Size:8.30 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCCHB57D4S

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, and is credited with coining the term, "The Me Decade."

Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.
Publisher: Picador USA

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