From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe [FIRST BOOK CLUB EDITION] 1981 • FSG

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe 

FIRST EDITION [1981] FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX

First book club edition.  Stated Second Printing / 1981.  

Visually identical to the first edition in every way, but without a price on front panel of dust jacket. 

Dust jacket has visible wear; rub wear on front and a few small sealed edge tears.  Otherwise clean and in tact.  Ships in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint.  Looks and reads like new.  Small name of orig. owner written neatly on front endpaper.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Walter Groppius, granddaddy of steel and glass, conceived his architectural vision in the rubble of WW I and the decadence of Weimar in the decade after.  His doctrine found fertile soil in America, where it was time to adopt a clearly defined and suitable representative architecture.

Tom Wolfe, author of THE PAINTED WORD and THE RIGHT STUFF, treats us to a chronicle of the trends that ultimately brought us the ubiquitous and baffling "glass box" of modern commerce. 

The strange saga of American architecture in the twentieth century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement as Wolfe debunks the European gods of modern and postmodern architecture and their American counterparts.