Try Wolfe's From Bauhuas to Our House. An abosultue scream, partucularly if you have ever work on "Nan der Roh's Row." There's another place, perhaps in the same book, where Wolfe refers to "Mies van der Rohe on row" of plastic airport chairs.
I liked the bit about architects that run academic departments and design building for campuses. There was some sort of presentation (at Harvard, I seem to recall) where the acrhitect was going on about his building. He said something to the effect that the building "was having a conversation with the landscape. Wolfe says something like "whereupon a Harvard logic professor was heard to ask 'just what did the landscape have to say.' "
Too funny.
I like the opening chapter where he describes the feeling corporate chieftains had when they actually occupied these building that no one liked and that they had paid millions for. He says "and it made their heads hurt!"
Gotta love it.