B is for Bauhaus

Resumen del libro

This book is not a dictionary, though it tells you all you need know about everything from Authenticity to Zips. It's not an autobiography, though it does offer a revealing and highly personal inside view of contemporary culture. It's an essential tool kit for understanding the world around us.

It's about what makes a Warhol a genuine fake; the creation of national identities; the mania to collect. It's also about the city as seen from the rear view mirror of Grand Theft Auto V; digital ornament and why we value imperfection. It's about drinking a bruisingly dry martini in Adolf Loo's American bar in Vienna, and about Hitchcock's film sets.

It's about the modern world of fashion, technology, design and art. Born in London, Deyan Sudjic studied architecture in Edinburgh, edited Domus in Milan, was the director of the Venice architecture biennale, and a curator in Glasgow, Istanbul and Copenhagen. The author of The Language of Things and The Edifice Complex, Deyan Sudjic is now Director of the Design Museum, London.

Biografía del autor

Deyan Sudjik es director del Museo del Diseño de Londres. Ha trabajado como crítico para el Observer y el Sunday Times, ha sido editor de Domus en Milán, director de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia y comisario de exposiciones en Glasgow, Estambul y Copenhague. Es autor de varias obras, entre las que destaca La arquitectura del poder, publicada por Ariel.