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From Bauhaus to Our House

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by Tom Wolfe
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tom WolfePublish date:02/04/25Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250352675ISBN-10:1250352673UPC:9781250352675Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:Criticism, HistoryBook Topic:Contemporary (1945 -)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCSPEYPAAB

"After 1945 our plutocrats, bureaucrats, board chairmen, CEOs, commissioners, and college presidents undergo an inexplicable change. They become diffident and reticent. All at once they are willing
to accept that glass of ice water in the face, that bracing slap across the mouth, that reprimand for the fat on one's bourgeois soul, known as modern architecture."

After critiquing―and infuriating―the art world with The Painted Word, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares 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 buildings that have influenced (and infected) America's cities.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9781250352675ISBN-10:1250352673UPC:9781250352675Book Category:ArchitectureBook Subcategory:Criticism, HistoryBook Topic:Contemporary (1945 -)Size:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2513Product ID:SCSPEYPAAB
Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of more than a dozen books, including 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. He is credited with coining the term "the Me Decade." Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.
Publisher: Picador USA

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