From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe [FIRST EDITION / 1981]

From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe 

FIRST EDITION [1981] FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX

Fifth Printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket in Very Good condition.   

DJ is price clipped; one small sealed tear and a few tiny chips missing from top edge; otherwise excellent! 

Book itself looks and reads like new!

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.