I know the future

In a fit of prescience, yesterday I posted about how America borrows the knowledge creation of other countries to deploy for itself, rather than creating nearly as much as it might otherwise appear. Today I look upon the NYTimes and Tom Wolfe re-tells the story of Gropius and Mies van der Rohe arriving in America (also as refuges just like the others) in the 30's and transfering the creative knowledge of their European home here for us to deploy. This story, for those looking for more than the 3 pages on-line at the NYTimes, should look to Wolfe's book From Bauhaus to Your House, in which he related the whole tale, including the fate of actual American knowledge creator, Frank Lloyd Wright . By the way, it is the dominance of the Bauhaus aesthetic which Virgina Postrel attacks in her new book. Its well worth a read, as Wolfe always is.