Wolfe, Tom

Bio Sketch

American author and journalist (1930–2018), a major figure in New Journalism. His From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) was a scathing populist critique of Modern architecture in America — mocking its European elitism, its imposition on unwilling clients, and the pretensions of its theorists and practitioners. Though not an architectural scholar, Wolfe's book brought the critique of Modern architecture to a mass audience.

Key Works

• From Bauhaus to Our House (1981)

Key Concepts

• modernism
• postmodernism

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Wolfe's From Bauhaus to Our House represents the popularization of the postmodern critique of Modern architecture — translating Venturi and Scott Brown's academic arguments into journalistic polemic and reaching audiences far beyond architectural discourse.

Source Support

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