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One of Austria’s most influential architects, Otto Wagner (1841-1918) played a key role in modernizing urban architecture. Forming an approach described as structural rationalism, Wagner pioneered use of materials such as glass, steel, and especially aluminium. He was associated with the Viennese Succession, a group of artists and designers headed by Gustav Klimt that(...)
Wagner, 1841-1918 : forerunner of modern architecture
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One of Austria’s most influential architects, Otto Wagner (1841-1918) played a key role in modernizing urban architecture. Forming an approach described as structural rationalism, Wagner pioneered use of materials such as glass, steel, and especially aluminium. He was associated with the Viennese Succession, a group of artists and designers headed by Gustav Klimt that initiated a departure from the conservative style of the Viennese Künstlerhaus. Among Wagner’s most important buildings are the Vienna Postsparkassenamt (Postal Savings building) and the Steinhof Church. Part of Taschen's Basic Architecture series. Each title in the series contains approximately 120 images, including photographs, sketches, drawings, and floor plans. Introductory essays explore the architect’s life and work, touching on family and background as well as collaborations with other architects. The body presents the most important works in chronological order, with descriptions of client and/or architect wishes, construction problems (why some projects were never executed), and resolutions. The appendix includes a list of complete or selected works, biography, bibliography and a map indicating the locations of the architect’s most famous buildings.
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Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was known throughout Vienna as an outspoken, audacious dandy and moralist who defied the establishment. His work not only represented the beginning of modernism, with its stark, unornamented style, but also revolutionized architecture by introducing the concept of(...)
Adolf Loos 1870-1933 : architect, cultural, critic, dandy
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Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was known throughout Vienna as an outspoken, audacious dandy and moralist who defied the establishment. His work not only represented the beginning of modernism, with its stark, unornamented style, but also revolutionized architecture by introducing the concept of “spatial plan” architecture, which allowed for economizing space by designating rooms’ sizes and heights based on their purposes.
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The title of the book sets the two fields of activity pursued by the architect, architectural historian and theorist August Sarnitz – building and writing – in a reciprocal relation: the context to what has been built emerges in the process of writing, just as the context to what has been written emerges in the process of building. This publication is the first to(...)
Relations in architecture: writings and buildings
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The title of the book sets the two fields of activity pursued by the architect, architectural historian and theorist August Sarnitz – building and writing – in a reciprocal relation: the context to what has been built emerges in the process of writing, just as the context to what has been written emerges in the process of building. This publication is the first to document Sarnitz’s work as author, designer, exhibition designer, architect and photographer.
Théorie de l’architecture
Adolf Loos
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Adolf Loos (1870-1933) fut un personnage haut en couleurs dont la présence dans le foyer culturel qu'était la Vienne du début des années 1900 a galvanisé les constructions du pays. Défenseur précoce et passionné du modernisme, il rejeta avec force toute la démesure de l'esthétique sécessionniste qui prévalait dans l'architecture viennoise de cette époque, tout comme(...)
Adolf Loos
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Adolf Loos (1870-1933) fut un personnage haut en couleurs dont la présence dans le foyer culturel qu'était la Vienne du début des années 1900 a galvanisé les constructions du pays. Défenseur précoce et passionné du modernisme, il rejeta avec force toute la démesure de l'esthétique sécessionniste qui prévalait dans l'architecture viennoise de cette époque, tout comme l'ensemble des marqueurs du style «style fin» européen. Au lieu de cela, dans ses discours et ses écrits tels que son essai majeur Ornement et crime (1908), Loos exprime sa «passion pour les surfaces lisses et précieuses». Il défend l'idée selon laquelle l'ornementation en architecture est, par nature, éphémère, prisonnière des modes et des styles du moment, et ainsi rapidement démodée. Ce faisant, elle entraîne le bâtiment qu'elle est censée enrichir vers l'obsolescence. Loos, profondément classique, argumenta plutôt pour des constructions simples, intemporelles, à l'esthétique traditionnelle et aux qualités issues de sa structure.
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This book is a scientific anthology and a text mosaic on the modern interior, its origins and its historic development. In recent years, science has increasingly focused on the subject of the interior; this book investigates the subject from different perspectives, the resumé of a symposium at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Experts in the fields of architectural(...)
Private utopia: cultural setting of the interior in the 19th and 20th century
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This book is a scientific anthology and a text mosaic on the modern interior, its origins and its historic development. In recent years, science has increasingly focused on the subject of the interior; this book investigates the subject from different perspectives, the resumé of a symposium at the Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna. Experts in the fields of architectural history, philosophy and psychology analyze the modern trend towards the individual design of interiors beyond fashion and good taste; the atelier and practice of Lucian and Sigmund Freud, the interiors in Proust's novels, Wittgenstein's house and Kiesler's Endless House.
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Hoffmann
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Cette introduction explore les idées maîtresses de Hoffmann, son architecture et ses autres créations afin de comprendre ce moderniste essentiel qui continue à façonner et influencer directement l'esthétique européenne, des intérieurs monochromes aux couverts que nous posons sur nos tables.
Hoffmann
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Cette introduction explore les idées maîtresses de Hoffmann, son architecture et ses autres créations afin de comprendre ce moderniste essentiel qui continue à façonner et influencer directement l'esthétique européenne, des intérieurs monochromes aux couverts que nous posons sur nos tables.
Architecture, monographies