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To: Crocodile who wrote (51992)	6/9/2000 2:26:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I like and dislike the Bauhaus book? Because he wrote it well. (And sort of didn't, but it doesn't need criticizing.) I think it's valuable because he punched em a good one in a style fun to read and targeted for everyone. It's a book I wish I'd written, and could have, he bragged witlessly, but wouldn't have, because I assume people already know that stuff and would laugh at me. (I know how snobby this sounds. Literally can't help it tho. It's true, and when true is snobby, you've got a problem.) I think the same book better exampled would kick butt on how architecture sucks, but it already does that itself, if you look. So it doesn't seem necessary to have much more than Wolfe's book unless you're going to go look anyway, and then you don't need it. So I think it's brilliant, because of that. Just right. I used to think critics were useless losers. Now I think we need a shitload of erudite ones on every corner ~ I will throw them scraps of bread and fish, encouraging them to bark loudly ~ at least until this insanity gets straightened out. Man waht a mess. Trust you to find a title ~ "....Jonathan Hale's book, The Old Way of Seeing -- And How to Get It Back. It's supposed to be about how the proportions and aesthetics of architecture got trashed over the past century. Sounds interesting..." That sounds awfully interesting ~ shoot I may have to go get it ~ especially because of the "And How to Get It Back" part. I hope he means the Stuff, and not just the Seeing. If you haven't read Bernard Rudofsky's old Streets For People, ya gotta. It's the greatest. He is one funny guy. And man, he knows his stuff and chronicles the hell out of it. It's fifteen times the book of Wolfe's, and better written by orders. It began as an exhibit at MOMA. Bernard's a Mark Twain. PS: This is a book so fun to read, I recommend it for Everyone. It is a GREAT GOOD TIME. He and Alexander Kira are the funniest professors in America. (I checked.)