Name: From Bauhaus to Our House
Rating: 3.75 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9780553380637

Tom Wolfe

From Bauhaus to Our House

Takes a critical look at the past fifty years of American architecture and assesses the influence of foreign architects and movements

Sarah Sammis

Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" (The Atlantic Monthly), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to The Painted Word.

Alphan Günaydın

Lewis Martin

A short history of architecture in the twentieth century debunks the stuffy European contributions to both modern and post-modern building design. Reprint.

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech 

Angelo Zinna

Marie C-D

Jessica Lord

Jen Taylor

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 Haus. 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.

From Bauhaus to Our House

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