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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?
Hooking Up is a collection of essays and a novella by American author Tom Wolfe, a number of which were earlier published in popular magazines. [1]The essays cover diverse topics dating from as early as 1965, including both non-fiction and fiction, along with snipes at his contemporaries John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving.
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 ...
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 ...
The Pump House Gang is a 1968 collection of essays and articles by Tom Wolfe.The pieces in the book explore various aspects of the counterculture of the 1960s.The title essay is based on a two-part New York Herald Tribune Sunday Magazine article titled The New Life Out There, [1] about Jack Macpherson and his social circle of surfers that congregated at a sewage pump house at Windansea Beach ...
"Pornoviolence" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe.It first appeared under a longer title in the July 1967 issue of Esquire magazine, [1] and was later published in the collection Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine. [2]
Muche married Elsa (El) Franke, who was a Bauhaus student, in 1922. [5] After 1922 his style evolved from pure abstraction towards more figurative and organic leanings, a sort of lyric surrealism. [6] Muche was in charge of the 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition, their first major exhibition, [5] for which he designed an experimental house known as "Haus ...
Hermann Muthesius with his wife Anna at The Priory, Hammersmith, in 1900. Adam Gottlieb Hermann Muthesius (20 April 1861 – 29 October 1927), known as Hermann Muthesius, was a German architect, author and diplomat, perhaps best known for promoting many of the ideas of the English Arts and Crafts movement within Germany and for his subsequent influence on early pioneers of German architectural ...