Word: comfortless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...text has some virtues, some manically funny apergus, such as the glimpse of reverent Yalies hand-washing the baby's diapers to pay for the pair of Mies Barcelona chairs, those comfortless icons of secular progress. But its flaw, apart from Wolfe's shaky grasp of architectural history, is that he looks with his ears. Architects tend to write manifestos when they are not being asked to build. Given the choice between what architects wrote about architecture, and what they actually built, Wolfe believes the words every time. This leads him into some strange fluffs, like his mistaken...