Main entry:

Long, Christopher (Christopher Alan), 1957- author.

Title & Author:

The new space : movement and experience in Viennese modern architecture / Christopher Long ; photographs by Wolfgang Thaler.

Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2016].
©2016.

Description:

xv, 246 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 28 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-241) and index.
1: The Essence of Architectural Creation -- 2: Thoughts on Designing a Ground Plan -- 3: Raumplan and Movement -- 4: The Possibilities of Nonorthogonality -- 5: Domesticating the Raumplan -- 6: Experiments in Volume and Movement -- 7: The Punctuated Path -- 8: The House as Path and Place -- 9: The Apotheosis of Raumplan and Path -- 10: Accidental Space -- CODA -- APPENDIX: Essays by Oskar Strnad, Heinrich Kulka, and Josef Frank.

Summary:

Scholars have long explored the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism. By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the avant-garde had shifted its focus from the surface to the interior. Adolf Loos (1870-1933), together with Josef Frank (1885-1967) and Oskar Strnad (1879-1935), led this generation of architects to interpret modernism through culture and lifestyle. They were interested in the experience of architectural space: how it could be navigated, inhabited, and designed to reflect the modern way of life while also offering respite from it. The New Space traces the theoretical conversation about space carried out in the writings and built works of Loos, Frank, and Strnad over four decades. The three ultimately foregrounded what Le Corbusier would later-independently-term the architectural promenade. Lavishly illustrated with new photography and architectural plans, this important book enhances our understanding of the development of modernism and of architectural theory and practice.

ISBN:

9780300218282
0300218281

Subject:

Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 Criticism and interpretation.
Frank, Josef, 1885-1967 Criticism and interpretation.
Strnad, Oskar, 1879-1935 Criticism and interpretation.
Loos, Adolf, Criticism and interpretation.
Frank, Josef, Criticism and interpretation.
Strnad, Oskar, Criticism and interpretation.
Frank, Josef, 1885-1967.
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.
Strnad, Oskar, 1879-1935.
Modern movement (Architecture) Austria Vienna.
Architecture Austria Vienna History 20th century.
Mouvement moderne (Architecture) Autriche Vienne.
Architecture Autriche Vienne Histoire 20e siècle.
Modern movement (Architecture) Austria.
Architecture History Austria 20th century.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture.
Modern movement (Architecture)
Architektur
Fotografie
Innenarchitektur
Wohnkultur
Raumwahrnehmung
Austria Vienna.
Wien

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Bildband.

Added entries:

Thaler, Wolfgang, illustrator.

Movement and experience in Viennese modern architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293799
Call No.: BIB 238980
Status: Available