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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?
Wolfe also wrote two critiques of and social histories of modern art and modern architecture, The Painted Word and From Bauhaus to Our House, published in 1975 and 1981, respectively. The Painted Word mocked the excessive insularity of the art world and its dependence on what he saw as faddish critical theory.
The Bonfire of the Vanities: The Opera is an opera by the American composer Stefania de Kenessey and American librettist Michael Bergmann.The story is about ambitions and tensions in New York City in the 1980s and is based on the novel The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
Set during the May 1968 revolution in Paris, Lionel Baier’s “The Safe House” is a comic family portrait filled with ideas that never fully cohere. The film is based on Christophe Boltanski ...
Steven Izenour (July 16, 1940 in New Haven – August 21, 2001 in Vermont) was an American architect, urbanist and theorist.He is best known as co-author, with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, of Learning from Las Vegas, one of the most influential architectural theory books of the twentieth century.
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 ...
Finding an inspired collaborator in chef Sinem Özler, a passionate crusader for traditional Anatolian foodways, he opened Seraf Vadi in 2023, earning rave reviews and a devoted following.
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 ...