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portada Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture Since Otto Wagner (in English)
Type
Physical Book
Language
Inglés
Pages
336
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
25.7 x 19.8 x 3.3 cm
Weight
1.50 kg.
ISBN13
9781848222052

Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture Since Otto Wagner (in English)

Liane Lefaivre (Author) · Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd · Hardcover

Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture Since Otto Wagner (in English) - Lefaivre, Liane

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Synopsis "Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture Since Otto Wagner (in English)"

Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin-de siecle 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 Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet, not to mention Ludwig Wittgenstein's House for his sister. Beginning with Wagner's polemical manifesto, Moderne Architektur, it stresses the importance of the fraught and highly polarized cultural politics that engulfed Vienna for most of the twentieth century and ultimately produced much of what is modern in every field of culture and science. It shows how leading cultural figures such as Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Klimt and Twain encouraged a 'rebellious' architecture, which continued in later eras with the Wiener Gruppe, amongst others. The book also places architectural history within the context of the political economy that has shaped Vienna and highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s. Today, 60% of Vienna's population lives in the most successful social housing in the world, which has proved to be an important factor in stimulating the highly successful economy of the country as a whole.

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