From Bauhaus to Our House

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From Bauhaus to Our House

Author	: Tom Wolfe
Publisher	: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
File Size	: 24,9 Mb
Release Date	: 24 November 2009
ISBN	: 142992425X
Pages	: 128 pages
Rating	: /5 ( users)

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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 by Tom Wolfe

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From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe

A review of architectural trends in the twentieth century that attacks the modernist mainstream.

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