Vienna 1850-1930: Architecture - Hardcover

Haiko, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084781324X ISBN 13: 9780847813247

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1992

Synopsis

A lavish presentation of Vienna's greatest built monuments. From neoclassicism to the secession to rationalist modernism the spirit of each building with vivid color photographs of the interiors, exteriors, and grounds. Twenty-eight works in all - including the Karl Marx Hof by Karl Ehn, the Michaelerplatz Building by Adolf Loos, the Villa Skywa-Primavesi by Josef Hoffmann, the Steinhof Church by Otto Wagner, the Secession Building by J. M. Olbrich, and the Parliament by Theophil Hansen - are present in all their splendor.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From Library Journal:

During the 80-year period covered here, there was an explosion of creativity in Vienna--in psychiatry, music, painting, and, especially, in architecture. The city's architecture was a moving force behind the birth of modernism and the Bauhaus. This book, illustrated with many photographs (some of them striking), offers visual documentation of important buildings in the city. Unfortunately, most of the photographs lack captions. The text consists of an introduction (with many references to German-language sources) and subsequent introductory notes, a few paragraphs in length, for each building. These notes usually include a couple of bibliographic references to works in German. There is no index. Only for comprehensive architecture collections.
- Margarete Gross, Chicago P.L.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 084781324X
• ISBN 13: 9780847813247
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 276