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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148636403321

Autore

Long Christopher

Titolo

The New Space : Movement and Experience in Viennese Modern Architecture / / Christopher Long

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-300-21828-1

0-300-22392-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations, portrait

Disciplina

720.9436/13

Soggetti

Architecture - Austria - Vienna - History

Modernism movement (Architecture) - Austria - Vienna

Austria Vienna

Wien

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE. The Essence of Architectural Creation -- CHAPTER TWO. Thoughts on Designing a Ground Plan -- CHAPTER THREE. Raumplan and Movement -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Possibilities of Nonorthogonality -- CHAPTER FIVE. Domesticating the Raumplan -- CHAPTER SIX. Experiments in Volume and Movement -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Punctuated Path -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The House as Path and Place -- CHAPTER NINE. The Apotheosis of Raumplan and Path -- CHAPTER TEN. Accidental Space -- CODA -- APPENDIX / Strnad, Oskar / Kulka, Heinrich / Frank, Josef -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

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.