Title: From Bauhaus to Our House
Product review: FBTOH is way out of date, not dealing with the best of Louis Kahn's work, which doesn't neatly fit any of Mr. Wolfe's categories. I wonder how he would categorize Frank Gehry, whose work came after the writing.I am intimately familiar with Bauhaus Fever, having survived its convusive early days (early 1950s)in the Department of Architecture at Penn, where the students revolted against the Beaux Arts tradition. Having experienced that first-hand and also having been turned off by Mr. Wolfe's public image, I avoided this book until June 2006, when I broke down and borrowed it, hoping to learn a bit more about the Bauhaus as an idealistic socio-political movement, somewhat of a Protestant Revolution.All I learned: 1)The Bauhaus stank of garlic, and 2)Mr. Wolfe's writing is toxic and best avoided by those who prefer peace of mind to rabble-rousing.
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