From Bauhaus to our house

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Tom Wolfe: From Bauhaus to our house (1981, Farrar Straus Giroux)

143 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 1981 by Farrar Straus Giroux.

ISBN:
978-0-374-15892-7
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A lamentation on the state of modernist, international style architecture. In this long-form architectural screed in essay form, Wolfe takes aim at celebrated figures in the modernist movement—most notably Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius—and examines the reasons for their rise and continuing acclaim.

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If I, someone who has very little knowledge of anything related to architecture, can spot a distinct lack of argumentation in a work written in an attempt at critiquing certain movements within architecture, then the failure is rather not subtle and it merely proves that the author is unqualified to have an opinion, still less write a book on the subject.

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Subjects

  • Architecture -- United States
  • Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
  • Bauhaus -- Influence

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