Author

Publication

1981 - Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

35,750 words, Guess

Page Count

143 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100374158924
  • ISBN-100374158932
  • ISBN-139780374158927
  • ISBN-139780374158934
  • Goodreads1310839', '3357010
and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number81012589
  • Better World Books9780374158934
  • Open LibraryOL4266636M

Classifications

  • DDC720/.973
  • LCCNA712 .W6 1981

Description

A lamentation on the state of modernist, international style architecture. In this long-form architectural screed in essay form, Wolfe takes aim at celebrated figures in the modernist movement—most notably Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius—and examines the reasons for their rise and continuing acclaim.

First Sentence

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 today?

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  • From Bauhaus to our houseFarrar Straus Giroux1981-01-01
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