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21%OFFChristopher Long - The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture - 9780300218282 - V9780300218282
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The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture

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Description for The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 130 color + 114 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DFA; 3JJ; ACXD2; AMX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 248 x 277 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1410.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300218282
SKU
V9780300218282
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About Christopher Long
Christopher Long is professor and chair of history/theory in the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin. 

Reviews for The New Space: Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture
"The argument for a building as visage versus a site for complex, lived-in experiences is long-standing in architectural debates. Fixating on a fraught moment in this discourse within Viennese architecture, Christopher Long puts into relief the work and writings of Adolf Loos, Josef Frank, and Oskar Strnad-all concerned with the relationship between the architectural and the subjective interior." -Metropolis Metropolis ... Read more

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