From Bauhaus to Our House [Paperback]

After critiquingand infuriatingthe art world withThe Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture inFrom 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 influencedand infectedAmericas cities.

A search-and-destroy mission against architectural pretensions . . . a funny book. New York

Full of insight . . . marvelously right. People

Wolfe's delightfully witty, biting history of modern architecture is a scintillating high comedy of big money, manners, and massive manipulation of public taste. Publishers Weekly

No wonder . . . this book is the hottest topic in Manhattan's architectural salons. The New York Times Book Review

Tom Wolfe has squeezed a funny tale out of glass and stone. . . hilarious. The Wall Street Journal

Sharp serpent's-tooth wit, useful cultural insight, and snazzy zip! pop! writing. Playboy

Tom Wolfe(1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics asThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,The Right Stuff, andRadical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novelsThe Bonfire of the Vanities,A Man in Full, andI Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles forThe Washington Post, theNew York Herald Tribune,Esquire, andNew Yorkmagazine, and is credited with coining the term, The Me Decade.

Among his many honors, Tom was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Award, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, alƒs