Return to Yale: Tom Wolfe Hates Modernism

You’ll remember we reported yesterday on Tom Wolfe‘s appearance at the Yale School of Architecture. Unfortunately, the article we’d found before just gave a quick, if not fairly scattered view of his lecture/conversation, not really getting to the meat of the event. Fortunately, we were able to find a full account at the Yale Daily News, which focused squarely on what was only briefly mentioned in the other: Wolfe’s distaste for modernism. He complains about the style destroying beauty, giving way to confusion in order to avoid real criticism by the public at large.