Rebel modernists : Viennese architecture since Otto Wagner / Liane Lefaivre.

Main entry:

Lefaivre, Liane, author.

Title & Author:

Rebel modernists : Viennese architecture since Otto Wagner / Liane Lefaivre.

Publication:

London : Lund Humphries, 2017.
©2017

Description:

336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-331) and index.
Fin-de-siècle Vienna and the culture wars : modern and anti-modern -- Otto Wagner : rebel -- The next generation : the Wagner School, Hoffmann and Loos -- After the apocalypse : the social housing of red Vienna and its social democratic political economy -- Between two wars : from apocalypse and to the Anschluss ; other modern architectures 1919-1938 -- Nazi Ostmark : 1938-1945 -- Reconstructing with a memory problem : 1945-1970 -- The Kreisky era : from the late 1960s to the present day : economic prosperity and culture wars -- After the shock therapy : renewal -- Good social housing is good for the economy.

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 Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet..."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9781848222052
184822205X

Subject:

Wagner, Otto 1841-1918
Wagner, Otto, 1841-1918
Architecture Austria Vienna History.
Architecture Autriche Vienne Histoire.
Architecture History Austria 20th century.
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture.
Architektur
Architecture Austria Vienna History 20th century
Architecture Austria Vienna History 21st century.
Modern movement (Architecture) Austria Vienna.
Austria Vienna.
Wien
Vienna (Austria) Buildings, structures, etc.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295834
Call No.: BIB 242214
Status: Available

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