Daddy wouldnt buy me a Bauhaus : profiles in architecture and design Daddy Wouldnt Buy Me a Bauhaus collects the unparalleled writings of legendary British wordsmith Janet Abrams for the first time. From pivotal figures in international modernism to the pioneers of digital medium Abrams explored the ideas theories and emotions that fueled their work.0The books twenty six profiles written in Abramss signature personal often hilarious style include Reyner Banham Berthold Lubetkin Philip Johnson Paul Rand Phyllis Lambert Frank Gehry Rem Koolhaas Muriel Cooper April Greiman and Michael Bloomberg. Many of the profiles are back in print for the first time having originally appeared in Blueprint I.D. magazine the Independent and in books and catalogs from the 1980s through the early 2000s. A foreword by Blueprints founding editor Deyan Sudjic and new reflections by Abrams set the stage