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Undeterred by the hostile critical response to The Painted Word, and perhaps even encouraged by the stir the book made, Wolfe set about writing a critique of modern architecture. From Bauhaus to Our House was published in full in two issues of Harper's Magazine, then issued in book form by Wolfe's long-time publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux in ...
Best-selling American author Tom Wolfe wrote a book-length critique, From Bauhaus to Our House, portraying the style as elitist. One of the supposed strengths of the International Style has been said to be that the design solutions were indifferent to location, site, and climate; the solutions were supposed to be universally applicable; the ...
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 Yamawakis brought two touring Bauhaus exhibitions to Japan, Gropius and Bauhaus in 1954, and 50 Years of the Bauhaus in 1971. [25] Ise and Walter Gropius came to Japan on the occasion of their exhibition and preferred it to the versions that had toured in Europe and America. Michiko wrote that the Gropiuses had a lovely time with them in ...
The Horner House is a historic house at 2 Merrivale Street in Beverly Shores, Indiana.It is an excellent example of the mid-twentieth century architectural movement known as the International Style, interpreted by architects like Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius and Philip Johnson for buildings constructed in America following World War II.
László Moholy-Nagy (/ m ə ˌ h oʊ l i ˈ n ɒ dʒ /; Hungarian: [ˈlaːsloː ˈmoholiˌnɒɟ]; [2] born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school.
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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 ...