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  • From Bauhaus to Our House

  • By: Tom Wolfe
  • Narrated by: Dennis McKee
  • Length: 3 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)
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Summary

In Tom Wolfe's hands, the strange saga of American architecture in the 20th century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement. This is his sequel to The Painted Word, the book that caused such a furor in the art world five years before. Once again Wolfe shows how social and intellectual fashions have determined aesthetic form in our time and how willingly the creators have abandoned personal vision and originality in order to work a la mode.
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©1981 by Tom Wolfe (P)1998 by Blackstone Audiobooks
Classics Literary Fiction Architecture
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Amusing and fun to listen to.

I really enjoyed listening to Tom Wolfe’s take down of the American architecture’s avant garde. The narration was okay but it was spoiled by the variable sound quality.

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nostalgic

written in the 80s, this brought on a lot of nostalgia about old books i read in university about Wright, Corbusier and Gropius, some of the greatest, well known, architects in history. written with light sarcasm, it follows the incipits and evolution of modernism, inspired by European schools, and focused mainly on American culture and currents. it's refreshingly critical, and focused on social values. even if a few of the things stated are not completely accurate, to my knowledge, as i've personally learned about them (this is why i deducted 1 star), i enjoyed it a lot.
regarding the performance, this is an audio recording of the original 143 page book, from the year 1998, so it's not the best quality, according to present day standards, it sounds a bit muffled, but it's quite good still.
overall, highly recommended, very relaxing, and worked well with my morning coffee.

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