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Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Hardback
Main Details
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Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Leslie Topp
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:250 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 257,Width 180 |
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| Category/Genre | Theory of architecture |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780521822756
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| Classifications | Dewey:720.943613 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
64 Halftones, unspecified; 16 Line drawings, unspecified
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
21 June 2004 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This book examines one of the key notions of modernist architecture as it was formulated in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century. Providing a close analysis of four major buildings - Olbrich's Secession Building, Hoffmann's Purkersdorf Sanatorium, Wagner's Postal Savings Bank, and Loos's Michaelerplatz building - Leslie Topp investigates how 'truth' could be interpreted in a variety of ways, including truth to purpose, symbolist or ideal truth, and ethical notions of authenticity. Drawing on newly uncovered archival materials, Topp offers a new interpretation of familiar buildings that are shown to encompass utopianism, hyper-rationality, and subjectivism. She also explores the connections between Viennese modern architecture and contemporary painting, psychiatry, fashion, labor issues, and anti-Semitic politics.
Reviews'Architecture and Truth in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna provides a welcome reading of how architects innovated in concert with institutions. It offers many insights.' Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
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