From Bauhaus to Our House Quotes

“Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing concentric circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.”
― Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House

“The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.”
― Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House

“They became desperate for an antidote, such as coziness & color. They tried to bury the obligatory white sofas under Thai-silk throw pillows of every rebellious, iridescent shade of Magenta, pink, and tropical green imaginable. But the architect returned, as he always does, like the conscience of a Calvinist, and he lectured them and hectored them and chucked the shimmering little sweet things out.”
― Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House

“One day [Kahn] walked into a classroom and began a lecture with the words: "Light ... is." There followed a pause that seemed seven days long, just long enough to re-create the world.”
― Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House