Archived Everyone dislikes modernist architecture (currentaffairs.org)
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Archived Everyone dislikes modernist architecture (currentaffairs.org)
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[–] puggy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
The late great Tom Wolfe wrote a short but important book about it called "From Bauhaus to Our House". Here is a summary. He argues that Frank Lloyd Wright was the single important architect of that era who wasn't trying to create Marxist cells.
[–] El_Syd 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Bauhaus was instituted in Weimar during the Weimar republic. What else do you need to know to understand it was trash?
[–] bosunmoon ago
There were plenty of other bauhaus educated architects that made beautiful modern homes.