Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner
$152.77
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2017
Summary
Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de-siècle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city’s extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Since 1900, Vienna has produced many great architects and their work includes some of the finest masterpieces of the twentieth century, such as Otto Wagner’s Stadtbahn stations, his Postsparkasse and his Majolica House, Adolf Loos’s American Bar and Goldman & Salastch, the Secessio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848222052 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 184822205X |
| Author: | Liane Lefaivre |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.49kg |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 190mm |
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‘Vienna has been in the vanguard of architecture for the past three centuries. This survey covers all the key figures to explain how this small city has maintained its fascinating radical traditions and an architecture of surprising social equity.’ * Book of the Year 2017, Financial Times Summer Reads Roundup *
About The Author
Liane Lefaivre
Liane Lefaivre is Professor and Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria. She has been a visiting Fellow at MIT and the National University of Singapore and is a researcher at the Technical University of Delft.
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