Ernst L. Freud, architect : the case of the modern bourgeois home / Volker M. Welter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welter, Volker, author.

Contributor:

Freud, Ernst L., 1892-1970.

Series:

Space and Place

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Ernst L., 1892-1970--Criticism and interpretation.

Freud, Ernst L.

Architecture, Domestic--Europe--History--20th century.

Architecture, Domestic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ernst L. Freud (1892-1970) was a son of Sigmund Freud and the father of painter Lucian Freud and the late Sir Clement Freud, politician and broadcaster. After his studies in Munich and Vienna, where he and his friend Richard Neutra attended Adolf Loos's private Bauschule, Freud practiced in Berlin and, after 1933, in London. Even though his work focused on domestic architecture and interiors, Freud was possibly the first architect to design psychoanalytical consulting rooms-including the customary couches-a subject dealt with here for the first time. By interweaving an account of Freud's pr

Contents:

Ernst L. Freud, Architect: The Case of the Modern Bourgeois Home; CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATONS; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; Chapter 1. Modern Bourgeois Domestic Architectureof the Weimar Republic; Chapter 2 The Making of an Architect; Chapter 3. Going Modern with Rainer Maria Rilke and Adolf Loos; Chapter 4. Society Architect in Berlin; Chapter 5. Houses in and around Berlin; Chapter 6. Couches, Consulting Rooms, and Clinics; Chapter 7. At Home in England; Chapter 8. Family Architect; Chapter 9. Architecture without Quality?; Selected List of Works; Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [206]-209) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780857452344

0857452347