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Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House - by Scott Alexander

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Book Review: From Bauhaus To Our House ... Scott Alexander Dec 04, 2024 438 675 41 Share Like most people , Tom Wolfe didn’t like modern architecture. He wondered why we abandoned our patrimony of cathedrals and palaces for a million indistinguishable concrete boxes. Unlike most people, he was a journalist skilled at deep dives into difficult subjects. The result is From Bauhaus To Our House , a hostile history of modern architecture which addresses the question of: what happened? If everyone hates this stuff, how did it win? How Did Modern Architecture Start? European art in the 1800s might h

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