Wolfe slams modernism in design
Tom Wolfe GRD ’57 thinks modernism has taken the awe out of architecture, in a drastic departure from the extravagance of Yale’s Gothic style.
On the 25th anniversary of his polemical assault on the architectural establishment, “From Bauhaus to Our House,” the best-selling journalist and novelist joined Yale architecture professor Peter Eisenman to discuss the concept of innovation in architecture’s present and future. The pair spoke before a crowd at the Yale University Art Gallery on Monday, with mostly older adults and graduate students lined up on High Street hoping to catch...
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