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From Bauhaus to Our House
by Tom Wolfe
How European modernism conquered American architecture and gave us glass boxes nobody wanted. Companion polemic to The Painted Word.
Read it if…
you want architecture's orthodoxy mocked.
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Skip it if…
you love Mies.
Try instead: The Kingdom of Speech →
Three things you will actually use
- Theory shapes cities.
- Clients rarely chose.
- Question the compound.
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Read it in an evening.
Our verdict
Wolfe on buildings.
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