โ Scribed by Tom Wolfe
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Do you like modern architecture? Can you contemplate the squat concrete, houses and dust-blasted skyscrapers which disfigure our landscape without doubting the sanity of the architects who designed them? In From Bauhaus to Our House Tom Wolfe asks why we have not got the buildings we deserve and launches a devastating and timely attack on the hideous follies of modern architecture.
'You may gaze up Ludgate Hill and wonder what St Paul's looked like before it was garlanded with shards, and you may weep. You may inspect the latest Haus der Kulter put up to give a home to Shakespeare and Mozart ... and you may ask yourself why it is that Richard Seifert and Sir Denys Lasdun cannot simply be taken out and shot ... If so, this book will enlighten you'
Punch
'The news that Tom Wolfe has turned his attention to modern architecture will delight anyone who has to live with these monstrosities of ugliness and ineptitude'
Auberon Waugh
'A man who thinks, speaks and has a sense of history when all around him pursue an amnesiac, inarticulate hedonism .... What Tom Wolfe dislikes about modern architecture is its arrogance of power, its totalitarian policing of the impulses of those who live in it'
Times Literary Supplement
Introduction
The Silver Prince
Utopia Limited
The White Gods
Escape to Islip
The Apostates
The Scholastics
Silver-White, Silver-Gray
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