Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture Since Otto Wagner

Original Price: $89.99UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS  By Liane Lefaivre "Vienna has been in the vanguard of architecture for the past three centuries. This survey covers all the key figures to explain how this small city has maintained its fascinating radical traditions and an architecture of surprising social equity."—Book of the Year 2017, Financial Times Summer Reads Roundup Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna from the fin de siècle to the present day, this book provides an insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich architectural tradition. Since 1900, Vienna has produced many great architects and their work includes some of the finest masterpieces of the twentieth century such as Otto Wagner’s Stadtbahn stations, his Postsparkasse and his Majolica House, Adolf Loos’s American Bar and Goldman & Salastch, the Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Josef Hoffmann’s Palais Stoclet, not to mention Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Hou