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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 today?
The Pump House Gang (1968) Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970) The New Journalism (1973) (Ed. with E.W. Johnson) The Painted Word (1975) Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (1976) The Right Stuff (1979) In Our Time (1980) From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) The Purple Decades (1982; selected excerpts of previous works) Hooking Up ...
The term "International Style" was first used in 1932 by the historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock and architect Philip Johnson to describe a movement among European architects in the 1920s that was distinguished by three key design principles: (1) "Architecture as volume – thin planes or surfaces create the building’s form, as opposed to a solid mass"; (2) "Regularity in the facade, as ...
C. Cabin Porn (book) Cambridge (book) Castle (Macaulay book) Cathedral (children's book) Cathedrals and Castles: Building in the Middle Ages; Circle: International Survey of Constructivist Art
Bayerische Staatsbank Nuremberg atrium building Hirschelgasse Nuremberg Patio with stairs. Sep Ruf (full name Franz Joseph Ruf; 9 March 1908, in Munich – 29 July 1982, in Munich) [1] was a German architect and designer strongly associated with the Bauhaus group.
In his 1981 book about modern architecture, From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe called the Barcelona chair as "the Platonic ideal of the chair", and wrote that, despite its high price, owning one had become a necessity for young architects: "When you saw the holy object on the sisal rug, you knew you were in a household where a fledgling ...
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It was the second largest project ever undertaken by the Bauhaus, after the Bauhaus school buildings in Dessau. [7] [8] [9] The school operated for only three years until the Nazis confiscated it during 1933 for use as a management training school. The building now has historic protection status and it experienced an extensive restoration which ...