Bauhaus, the architecture movement, celebrates its 75th anniversary sometime around now. A quarter century ago, Tom Wolfe, the perenially white-suited author of The Electic Kool-aid Acid Test penned From Bauhaus to Our House, a scathing indictment of the unadorned façades that characterize the Bauhaus style. This man hates glass office towers like Marx hated income disparity. Now that beach reading is finally over, there's no sense in not reading this 125-page epic. He may not be Rem Koolhaas, but hey, who would want him to be?
Monday, October 29, 2007
The Architectural Style They Named the Band After
Bauhaus, the architecture movement, celebrates its 75th anniversary sometime around now. A quarter century ago, Tom Wolfe, the perenially white-suited author of The Electic Kool-aid Acid Test penned From Bauhaus to Our House, a scathing indictment of the unadorned façades that characterize the Bauhaus style. This man hates glass office towers like Marx hated income disparity. Now that beach reading is finally over, there's no sense in not reading this 125-page epic. He may not be Rem Koolhaas, but hey, who would want him to be?
