From Bauhaus to Our House [SEP] publisher
's Magazine" and published by Wolfe's long-time publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1981.
Themes.
Wolfe bluntly lays out his thesis in the introduction to "From Bauhaus to Our House" with a riff on the patriotic song "America the Beautiful"
O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, has there ever been another place on earth where so many people of wealth and power have paid for and put up with so much architecture they detested as within thy blessed borders
agility continues to dazzle, more than fourteen years after his essays first began to appear in print. But dazzle is not history, or architectural criticism, or even social criticism, and it is certainly not an inquiry into the nature of the relationship between architecture and society."
References.
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External links.
- From Bauhaus to Our House excerpt in "Harper's magazine".
- From Bauhaus to Our House at tomwolfe.com.