From Bauhaus to Our House

"The pleasant, witty and annoying history of Wolf's modern architecture is a high-level comedy, such as treating a lot of money, manners, popular preferences." - Publishers Weekly

"No wonder, this book is the most popular topic in the Manhattan building salon." - New York Times book review

"Tom Wolf squeezed an interesting story with glass and stones ... very funny." - Wall Street Journal

Tom Wolf (1930 - 2018) is one of the founders of the news movement and is the author of contemporary classical writers such as Electric Cool Aid Test, Light Staff, Radical Thick, Maumaushing Flake Catcher. As a novel "Vagrant bonfire", "filled with people", "I am Charlotte Simmons". As a journalist he wrote an article in a magazine named "Washington Post", "New York Herald Tribune", "Mr. Fashion", "New York" and called it "The Me Decade".

Among his many honors, Tom received the National Book Award, the John Dos Passo Award, the Washington Irvine Literary Excellence Award, the National Humanities Award, and the National Contribution Fund Award.

He is from Richmond, Virginia and has a bachelor 's degree. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and got a doctorate. In American studies at Yale University. He lives in New York.

Skepticism about modernism is not limited to the UK. In the United States, Tom Wolf wrote from Bauhaus to our house, from Bauhaus directly to the United States to explain the Prince of European silver, he wrote that he built houses that look like worker's house and pesticide factory. Reliable point He suggested that any attempt to actually sit on the Le Corbusier's reclining chair would adopt karate behind his neck. "In modernism attacks on inhumane behavior, and in the extreme case anything that can be filled with contemporary nicknames has concluded that modernism can not find beauty and that it is not worth it. I thought, "Wilk said. The mind still believes in the early moral mission of modernists. Therefore, the crime of a concrete tower where Le Corbusier's design is inadequate and construction is inadequate has little to do with his work.

The wolf suddenly came to our house from Bauhaus and finished his question. But the answer is in its early stages, Wolff explained the first principle that Gropius and his colleagues built Bauhaus. They were so excited by the new industrial era and they named themselves as Prince. I think there are many designers close to many things today, but that is more than just the possibilities of new materials and manufacturing processes. Design enthusiasm, such as behavioral interventions, nudging in the "correct" direction of people, most people meaning "right" or supporting loyalty, is one example of the same impulses leading to machines is. To survive

This is synonymous with a hero designer, bring new knowledge to customers, educate customers, and improve customer hobbies. Walter Gropius and other Bauhaus teachers and graduates play Moses' role and can acquire knowledge that has not been washed from the mountain even if it is not washed. I passed the director of the Yale museum. Designers have problems as a convincing taste maker. Mr. Wolf said how modernist luxury clients feel dissatisfied with the design of architects and how people working in modernist architecture impose restrictions on their "living machines" I often speak about what. For Gropius and Mies, Philip Johnson and others, if the customer is not satisfied, it is because they are caught by their bourgeois view, not because the building is bad.