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The Looshaus / Christopher Long.
Fine Arts Library NA4178.V54 L66 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Long, Christopher (Christopher Alan), 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933.
- Looshaus (Vienna, Austria).
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933--Criticism and interpretation.
- Loos, Adolf.
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Austria--Vienna.
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Buildings--Austria--Vienna.
- Buildings.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Austria--Vienna.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 243 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The competition
- An isolated figure in the foreground
- Explosions of light
- The first designs
- The discovery of Vienna
- In praise of the present
- Ornament and crime
- A monstrosity
- On architecture
- An architect at war
- The second competition
- Breakdown
- My building on Michaelerplatz
- Triumph
- A building and its time
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300174533
- 0300174535
- OCLC:
- 711045501
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