From Bauhaus to Our House First Edition

by Tom Wolfe (Author)

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

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“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

About the Author

Tom Wolfe (1930-2018) was one of the founders of the New Journalism movement and the author of such contemporary classics as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Right Stuff, and Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, as well as the novels The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, and I Am Charlotte Simmons. As a reporter, he wrote articles for The Washington Post, the New York Herald Tribune, Esquire, and New York magazine, 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, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

A native of Richmond, Virginia, he earned his B.A. at Washington and Lee University, graduating cum laude, and a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale. He lived in New York City.

Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Picador; First edition (November 24, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312429142
ISBN-13: 978-0312429140
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 105 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #148,356 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #51 in Books > Arts & Photography > Architecture > Criticism
- #146 in Books > Textbooks > Humanities > Architecture
- #195 in Books > Arts & Photography > Architecture > History

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The uncomfortable truth about Architecture

May 13, 2017

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I studied Architecture in the early 60's when the theories described here were in "full bloom". It has taken us a long time to get past stoicism in architecture. As always Tom Wolfe's is funny and entertaining when he delivers his observations on life. Thank you Tom!

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MoJo

From Bauhaus to Tom's Outhouse.

October 22, 2018

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This is a very disappointing book. It is largely a tirade against Modernism and architects and social-political movements. But it does not go anywhere in the end. You know what he does not like - and Tom did not like a lot of things - but not what he likes or what he thinks we should like.

Yes there was a lot of bad Modernist architecture. But there has always been a lot of bad architecture of all types since the time that humans first built buildings.

And despite the title, Wolfe never really addresses the topic of "our house". You can't blame the post WW2 flood of ugly houses on Bauhaus. I live in Miami. People come to see our "Art Deco" and "Miami Modern" architecture which is much inspired by Bauhaus. Today there is a building boom in housing in Miami that is strongly inspired by Bauhaus design - simple, uncluttered, harmonious but with aspects that attract the eye. What a blessed change from McMansions.

This is not a book about architecture. It is a book about Tom Wolfe.

One aspect that really annoyed me about this book was that Wolfe really is annoyed to an obsessive degree by people with large egos. And yet the ego that really stands out in this book is Tom Wolfe's. It is significant that Wolfe always wore a white suit to make sure that you don't miss him standing there in the crowd - the white flag of ego, on legs.

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Malcolm Mcgrath

Very funny and informative

September 23, 2016

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Very funny and informative. I am a cabinet maker and regularly have to watch clients suffer through the nonsense he describes here from architects and designers. I found it fascinating to find out the historical origins.

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Joshua

Obnoxious to architects, great fun for wannabes

October 9, 2018

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Read this after “The Right Stuff” because I really liked that book and was looking for an architectural history book.

For someone familiar with the subject matter in this book I can understand the low reviews, but this was a very entertaining way to learn about the progression of architecture in the twentieth century.

I look forward to reading more nuanced descriptions of this history, but I also really enjoyed reading a version from someone who wasn’t afraid to call modern architecture stupid and ugly.

Beyond architecture the book is an illuminating account of how academia can create utter garbage when it turns completely inward, rather than using intellect to pursue societal goals.

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Nate D

Arrived In Best Condition

August 6, 2018

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The book looked new. It arrived more quickly than I expected from a private vendor, in a well protected envelope. A good price, even with the extra shipping charges. And in interesting book if you're interested in how America went from Beau-Arts buildings (quoin block corners, arched windows, ornamentation and peaked roofs with overhangs to shed rain) to the flat-roof, shear façade, 'modern' (dull) buildings of today. I've seen it everywhere...A beautiful Romanesque Church with an extension that looks like it could be a municipal parking garage or a nail factory. Ugh!

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Great Uncle

Why did they build that like that?

October 24, 2017

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Did you ever walk around the city (any city) and wonder where all those ugly new buildings came from? Why do they all look like identical filing cabinets? Mr Tom Wolfe presents a short, acidic history of how a few people managed to get a lot of us to believe that those concrete and aluminum slabs were works of art. If you've ever harbored suspicions that the emperor had no clothes here's ammunition to say so.

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Paul L. Shank

Amazing story. A story of professorial self annointed European ...

March 27, 2017

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Amazing story. A story of professorial self annointed European transplanted Architects with a bunch of collegiate lemmings as followers. The emperors who wore no clothes is borne out here. Not the kind of architects I've had the pleasure of working with over the decades. Love em

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Chris Warren

Excellent.

March 11, 2017

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Witty, funny, informative. Tom Wolfe is always entertaining, whether it be fiction or non-fiction. Well written, concise and brilliant. Buy it.

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