Tom Wolfe's From Bauhaus to Our House, with its account of architects who refused to let their aesthetic ideals be compromised by anything so prosaic as the well-being of the tenants* sheds a whole new light on The Fountainhead--which, in turn, brings to mind this Monty Python sketch. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2PyeXRwhCE)
*According to Wolfe, at least one of these guys would pay periodic visits to his buildings and dress down the tenants for living in them wrong--committing such stylecrimes as ruining the sleek streamlined lines with floral fabrics, for example.
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*According to Wolfe, at least one of these guys would pay periodic visits to his buildings and dress down the tenants for living in them wrong--committing such stylecrimes as ruining the sleek streamlined lines with floral fabrics, for example.