Tom Wolfe, "America's most skillful satirist" ("The Atlantic Monthly"), examines the strange saga of American architecture in this sequel to "The Painted Word."

The strange saga of American architecture in the twentieth century makes for both high comedy and intellectual excitement as Wolfe debunks the European gods of modern and postmodern architecture and their American counterparts.

汤姆·沃尔夫（Tom Wolfe，1931— ），美国当代著名的记者、评论家、作家。先后就读于华盛顿大学和耶鲁大学。早年从事新闻报道工作，开创了新新闻写作模式，被称为“新新闻主义之父”。他的文风泼辣大胆，擅长捕捉当代人的心态，讽刺性地描写美国社会。主要作品有《水泵房》、《着色的世界》、《真材实料》、《从包豪斯到我们的豪斯》和《虚荣的篝火》等。曾获美国国家图书奖、哥伦比亚新闻奖、国家人文勋章、《芝加哥论坛报》文学终身成就奖、美国全国图书基金会美国文学杰出贡献奖。在美国新闻界和文学界具有举足轻重的地位。 译者简介： 关肇邺（1929— ），中国工程院院士，建筑学家，清华大学建筑学院教授。早年师承梁思成，在现代建筑和中西方古典建筑的历史和理论研究方面，具有很深的造诣。发表论文、译著等40余篇。2000年获首届“梁思成建筑奖”、“全国工程设计大师”称号，20...(展开全部)

Das Bauhaus strahlt noch heute – über 85 Jahre nach seiner Gründung – eine ungebrochene Lebendigkeit aus. Das Bauhaus als Schule, in der Kunsthandwerk, Kunst und Technik zusammen gelehrt wurden, hat sämtliche Moden der Architektur und Gestaltung überdauert. Der vorliegende Band gewährt Einblick in das historische, kulturphilosophische, politische und pädagogische Umfeld seiner ...(展开全部)

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Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that...(展开全部)

One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and the Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new arti...(展开全部)

From Galilee to the Negev offers an intimate look at this multi‐faceted place, exploring its complexities and its contradictions. Shore travelled the length and breadth of the region, questioning and revealing through his camera lens. His visual inquiry explores the landscape itself and the people who live in it – the daily lives and the narratives that combine to create this f...(展开全部)