| The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture Contributor(s): Long, Christopher (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300218281 ISBN-13: 9780300218282 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $82.17 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Architecture | Criticism - History | Europe - Austria & Hungary |
| Dewey: 720.943 |
| LCCN: 2015956228 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 9.5" W x 10.7" (3.00 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Scholars have long stressed 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 explored 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. |