The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture
The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture
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Long, Christopher. The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture
Cl. Yale University 2016
Book ID: 100099
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.
264 pp. English
