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""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 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."" 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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""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

"""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"

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Tom Wolfe (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 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. He is credited with coining the term ""the Me Decade."" Among his many honors, he was awarded the National Book Award, the John Dos Passos Prize, the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, the National Humanities Medal, and the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lived in New York City.

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