From Bauhaus to Our House

From Bauhaus to Our House
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 133
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ISBN-10 : 9781429924252
ISBN-13 : 142992425X
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Book Synopsis From Bauhaus to Our House by : Tom Wolfe

Download or read book From Bauhaus to Our House written by Tom Wolfe and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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