Fix, in this case, meaning to elevate people’s taste beyond what the Bauhaus dismissed as bourgeois. That is, it’s about what happens when Designers try to fix people. I think From Bauhaus to Our House is a parable about what happens when designers elevate themselves and their tastes above their clients and the people who will use and live with their designs. Even he describes it as a piece of Architectural criticism. Serious design critics dismiss it. I found it to be hilarious and pointed. Wolfe is a staggeringly good writer in the new journalism style. Serious Architects dismiss it. It’s also (apparently) a lightweight piece of social design criticism. Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House is (apparently) a very poor and lightweight critique of mid-century Architecture. Just before I read From Bauhaus to Our House I guest lectured on “Human-Centred Design” in a first year Interactive and Visual Design class and someone asked me why designers always want to fix people.
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