“From Bauhaus to Our House,” Mr. Wolfe attacked modern architecture and what he saw as its determination to put dogma before buildings. Published in 1981, it met with the same derisive response from critics. “The problem, I think,” Paul Goldberger wrote in The Times Book Review, “is that Tom Wolfe has no eye.” — The New York Times
Tom Wolfe, an innovative journalist and novelist, died on Monday in Manhattan at the age of 88. Wolf lived in New York since joining The New York Herald Tribune as a reporter in 1962, and went on to influence what is known as New Journalism. Inciting hostile reactions to some of his work, Wolf notably condemned modern architecture receiving harsh backlash from critics.
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As Mr. Goldberger writes:
"like Robert Venturi has done, his buildings ultimately succeed...because they have well-composed facades ...They succeed, in other words, because they handle architecture's basics well."
then he goes on to dismiss Mr. Wolfe for not having an eye...
" He does not see, to take but one of so many examples, that Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building is a lush and extraordinarily beautiful object."
RIP Mr. Wolfe. You're common sense and wit will be sorely missed.
"then he goes on to dismiss Mr. Wolfe for not having an eye..."
Goldberger is a pompous gasbag.
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