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The Looshaus

Author : Christopher Alan Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300174533
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Looshaus written by Christopher Alan Long and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebration of the centennial of Vienna's Looshaus--one of modernism's earliest and most controversial buildings When it was completed in 1911, the Goldman & Salatsch Building in Vienna, commonly known as the Looshaus, incited controversy for its austerity and plainness. It represented a stark rejection of the contemporary preference for ornamentation, though its architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933), had intended it to preserve Viennese tradition within a new modernist language. The heated debate that ensued among critics and the public set the project apart, distinguishing it as one of the most important and contentious buildings of the early 20th century. In celebration of the Looshaus's centennial year, Christopher Long, a leading authority on Viennese architectural history, brings to light extensive new research and careful analysis that dispel long-held myths about Loos, his building, and its critical reception. The book, which features new color photography and a vast array of archival materials in print for the first time, tells the remarkable story of the Looshaus's design and construction, the political and social restlessness it reflected, and the building's fundamental role in defining the look of modernism.

Adolf Loos

Author : Panayotis Tournikiotis
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983424
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Loos written by Panayotis Tournikiotis and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in French (1991, Editions Macula, Paris), profiles the Viennese architect who was one of the most important pioneers of the European Modern Movement. Born in 1870, Loos was an early opponent of the decorative trend of Art Nouveau, believing instead that architecture devoid of ornament represented pure and lucid thought. His rationalist design theories were put into practice in the Karntner Bar, Vienna (1907), Steiner House, Vienna (1920), and Villa Muller, Prague (1930). Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Adolf Loos

Author : Joseph Masheck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857733214
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Adolf Loos written by Joseph Masheck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a celebrity in his own day. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with tattooing in an attempt to tell modern Europeans that they should know better. But the negation of ornament was supposed to reveal, not negate, good style; and an incorrigible ironist has been taken too literally in denying architecture as a fine art. Without normalizing his edgy radicality, Masheck argues that Loos' masterful "astylistic architecture" was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. Far from being the anti-architect of the modern era, Masheck's Loos is 'an unruly yet integrally canonical artist-architect'. He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy and advocated the evolution of artful architecture. This is a brilliantly written revisionist reading of a perennially popular architect.

The New Space

Author : Christopher Long
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300223927
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The New Space written by Christopher Long and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Vienna

Author : Richard Cockett
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300266537
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Vienna written by Richard Cockett and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens--every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. The city of Freud, Wittgenstein, Mahler, and Klimt was the melting pot at the heart of a vast metropolitan empire. But with the Second World War and the rise of fascism, the dazzling coteries of thinkers who squabbled, debated, and called Vienna home dispersed across the world, where their ideas continued to have profound impact. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of this extraordinary story. Tracing Vienna's rich intellectual history from psychoanalysis to Reaganomics, Cockett encompasses everything from the communist rebels of Red Vienna to the neoliberal economists of the Austrian School. This is the panoramic account of how one city made the modern world--and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

History Beyond the Text

Author : Sarah Barber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135688710
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book History Beyond the Text written by Sarah Barber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches. In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston-Bird bring together chapters from historical specialists in the fields of fine art, photography, film, oral history, architecture, virtual sources, music, cartoons, landscape and material culture to explain why, when and how these less traditional sources can be used. Each chapter introduces the reader to the source, suggests the methodological and theoretical questions historians should keep in mind when using it, and provides case studies to illustrate best practice in analysis and interpretation. Pulling these disparate sources together, the introduction discusses the nature of historical sources and those factors which are unique to, and shared by, the sources covered throughout the book. Taking examples from around the globe, this collection of essays aims to inspire practitioners of history to expand their horizons, and incorporate a wide variety of primary sources in their work.

Austria

Author :
Publisher : Fodor's
ISBN 13 : 1400014743
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Austria written by and published by Fodor's. This book was released on 2005 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers on all budgets will find the information they need in this updated Fodor's guide on where to stay, eat, and explore, on and off the beaten path.

Painting in Stone

Author : Fabio Barry
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248164
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Painting in Stone written by Fabio Barry and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stone Spanning almost five millennia, Painting in Stone tells a new history of premodern architecture through the material of precious stone. Lavishly illustrated examples include the synthetic gems used to simulate Sumerian and Egyptian heavens; the marble temples and mansions of Greece and Rome; the painted palaces and polychrome marble chapels of early modern Italy; and the multimedia revival in 19th-century England. Poetry, the lens for understanding costly marbles as an artistic medium, summoned a spectrum of imaginative associations and responses, from princes and patriarchs to the populace. Three salient themes sustained this “lithic imagination”: marbles as images of their own elemental substance according to premodern concepts of matter and geology; the perceived indwelling of astral light in earthly stones; and the enduring belief that colored marbles exhibited a form of natural—or divine—painting, thanks to their vivacious veining, rainbow palette, and chance images.

Fodor's Austria

Author : Mary Beth Bohman
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 140001753X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fodor's Austria written by Mary Beth Bohman and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the cultural attractions of Vienna, Salzburg, and other areas of Austria and offers tips on accommodations, restaurants, walking and driving tours, sightseeing, shopping, and seasonal festivals and events

Fodor's Vienna to Salzburg

Author : Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
ISBN 13 : 1400017734
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book Fodor's Vienna to Salzburg written by Inc. Fodor's Travel Publications and published by Fodors Travel Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suggests lodging, food, and sightseeing highlights along with travel tips and cultural information.

The Culture of the Case

Author : Frederic J. Schwartz
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262047705
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of the Case written by Frederic J. Schwartz and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed. In early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or creation of a “case” provided artists with a means to engage themes that ranged from blasphemy to Lustmord, or sexual murder. Shedding light on the case as a cultural form, Schwartz shows its profound effect on artists and the ways it dovetailed with methods used by these figures to exploit fundamental changes taking place across the mass media of their time. As Schwartz shows, the case was a common denominator that connected seemingly disparate works. George Grosz and Rudolf Schlichter drew on it for their violent visual art, as did architect Adolf Loos when he equated ornament with crime. Expressionists, meanwhile, approached the question of whether the so-called “mad” shared a right of public expression with those deemed sane, and examined medical and legal approaches to what society labeled as insanity. The case also took on a personal dimension when artists found themselves confronted with, or chose to engage with, the legal system. German courts prosecuted John Heartfield and others for their provocative works, while Bertolt Brecht created publicity for himself by suing the firm to whom he sold the film rights to The Threepenny Opera. Provocative and insightful, The Culture of the Case offers a privileged view of the spaces of representation in which images—in some instances, as cases—functioned at a key moment of modernity.

Nelson Goodman and Modern Architecture

Author : Kasper Lægring
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040094805
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Nelson Goodman and Modern Architecture written by Kasper Lægring and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-19 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book orchestrates a convergence of two discourses from the 1960s—Nelson Goodman’s aesthetic theory on one side and critiques of modern architecture articulated by figures like Peter Blake, Charles Jencks, and Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown on the other. Grounded in Goodman’s aesthetic theory, the book explores his conceptual framework within the context of modern architecture. At the heart of the investigation lies Goodman’s concept of exemplification. While his notion of denotation pertains to representational elements, often ornaments, in architecture, exemplification accentuates specific formal properties at the expense of others, including color, spatial orientation, transparency, seriality, and the like. Supplemented by findings from phenomenology, the book traces these effects in buildings, notably those by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Walter Gropius, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright—all key figures in the critiques of modern architecture. Employing Goodman’s framework, the book aims to address accusations of emptiness and alienation directed at modern architecture in the postwar era. It illustrates that modern architecture symbolizes aesthetically in a fundamentally different way than architecture from earlier periods. This book will be of interest to architects, artists, researchers, and students in architecture, architectural history, theory, cultural theory, philosophy, and aesthetics.

Architecture and Spectacle

Author : Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409422938
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Architecture and Spectacle written by Gevork Hartoonian and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on six leading contemporary architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas and Steven Holl, this book puts forward a unique and insightful analysis of neo-avant-garde architecture. It discusses the spectacle and excess which permeates contemporary architecture in reference to the present aesthetic tendency for image making, but does so by applying the tectonic of theatricality discussed by the nineteenth-century German architect Gottfried Semper. In doing so, it breaks new ground by opening up a dialogue between the study of the past and the design of the present.

Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture

Author : Annette Haug
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110764768
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Materiality in Roman Art and Architecture written by Annette Haug and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is on the aesthetics, semantics and function of materials in Roman antiquity between the 2nd century B.C. and the 2nd century A.D. It includes contributions on both architectural spaces (and their material design) and objects – types of 'artefacts' that differ greatly in the way they were used, perceived and loaded with cultural significance. With respect to architecture, the analysis of material aesthetics leads to a new understanding of the performance, imitation and transformation of surfaces, including the social meaning of such strategies. In the case of objects, surface treatments are equally important. However, object form (a specific design category), which can enter into tension with materiality, comes into particular focus. Only when materials are shaped do their various qualities emerge, and these qualities are, to a greater or lesser extent, transferred to objects. With a focus primarily on Roman Italy, the papers in this volume underscore the importance of material design and highlight the awareness of this matter in the ancient world.

A Companion to Modern Art

Author : Pam Meecham
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118639847
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Modern Art written by Pam Meecham and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Modern Art presents a series of original essays by international and interdisciplinary authors who offer a comprehensive overview of the origins and evolution of artistic works, movements, approaches, influences, and legacies of Modern Art. Presents a contemporary debate and dialogue rather than a seamless consensus on Modern Art Aims for reader accessibility by highlighting a plurality of approaches and voices in the field Presents Modern Art’s foundational philosophic ideas and practices, as well as the complexities of key artists such as Cezanne and Picasso, and those who straddled the modern and contemporary Looks at the historical reception of Modern Art, in addition to the latest insights of art historians, curators, and critics to artists, educators, and more

THE HOTEL BOOK(NO.1)

Author : 편집부
Publisher : Taschen
ISBN 13 : 3822858897
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book THE HOTEL BOOK(NO.1) written by 편집부 and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2002-12-27 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Architecture

Author : Alan Colquhoun
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192842269
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Modern Architecture written by Alan Colquhoun and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of the international modern movement in architecture Alan Colquhoun explores the complex motivations behind its revolutionary new style and assesses its triumphs and failures.