From Bauhaus to Our House -- Tom Wolfe

<p><b>"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<br>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."</b> <p/>After critiquing&#8213;and infuriating&#8213;the art world with <i>The Painted Word</i>, the award-winning author Tom Wolfe shares his less-than-favorable thoughts about modern architecture in <i>From Bauhaus to Our House</i>. <p/>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.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Tom Wolfe<br><b>Publisher:</b> Picador USA<br><b>Published:</b> 02/04/2025<br><b>Pages:</b> 128<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.25lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.50d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781250352675<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Tom Wolfe</b> (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 <i>The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test</i>, <i>The Right Stuff</i>, and <i>Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers</i>, as well as the