Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture by Werner Oechslin

Description: Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, and the Road to Modern Architecture by Werner Oechslin, Lynnette Widder Examines the origins of tectonics as concept and ideal in early Modern architecture. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Contemporary architectural theory emphasizes the importance of tectonics, the term used to articulate the relationship between construction, structure and architectural expression. Despite the terms currency, little consideration has been given to its origins or historical significance. In this study, Werner Oechslin examines the attempts by early modern theoreticians of architecture to grapple with the relationship between appearance and essence, which is crucial to the discourse of tectonics. Referring to the writings of Joseph Lux, Karl Botticher, and Adolf Loos, Oechslin follows this development from theories of a classical architecture without columnar orders to a Modern architecture upholding the truthof its own architectural expression. Oechslin locates the culmination of this discourse in the work of Adolf Loos and in Le Corbusiers frequent references to Ancient Greece as the precedent of Modern architectures honesty. This volume includes an anthology of primary texts by several theorists published in English for the first time. Author Biography Werner Oechslin studierte Kunstgeschichte, ArchAologie, Philosophie und Mathematik in ZA1/4rich und Rom. Er lehrte am MIT in Cambridge und an den UniversitAten in Bonn und Genf. Seit 1985 ist er Professor fA1/4r Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte an der ETH ZA1/4rich. 1987 war er Gastprofessor an der Harvard University. Von 1986 bis 2006 leitete er das Institut fA1/4r Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur. Zahlreiche Publikationen zu Architekturgeschichte, Architekturtheorie und Kunstgeschichte. Werner Oechslin ist GrA1/4nder und Stifter der "Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin" in Einsiedeln. Table of Contents Preface; Introduction; 1. The opposite of the issue of style: necessity, unity, immanent coherence, the naked, simple and true; 2. Tectonics and the theory of raiment; 3. Disenchantment with Böttichers overly intellectual work and the postulation of a way to overcome the Semperian mechanistic conception of the essence of art; 4. StilhÜlse und Kern: from theory to metaphor - and its deployment by Otto Wagner; 5. Adolf Loos - against the Zeitgeist; 6. … ad usum Delphini - the element event of the Raiment Dissolved, and the ineluctable return - or recognized tenacity - of the Hull; Anthology of primary sources. Review "In this collction of essays, as concise as they are broad- ranging and erudite, oechslin explored the multiple implications for modernity of two key, and co-dependent terms of 19-th century art theory, and offered an adroitly selected anthology of excerpts from architectural theories." Harvard Design Magazine "Those interested in a narrative review of writings on architecture, presented with intensity and in detail, will be pleased with, informed by, and interested in Oechslins offering." Centropa Promotional This 2002 volume examines the origins of tectonics as concept and ideal in early Modern architecture. Review Quote "Those interested in a narrative review of writings on architecture, presented with intensity and in detail, will be pleased with, informed by, and interested in Oechslins offering." Centropa Promotional "Headline" This 2002 volume examines the origins of tectonics as concept and ideal in early Modern architecture. Description for Bookstore Oechslin considers the origins of tectonics, the term used to articulate the relationship between construction structure, and architectural expression, through the work of early modernist architects Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos. The 2002 volume includes an anthology of primary texts by several theoreticians published in English. Description for Library Oechslin considers the origins of tectonics, the term used to articulate the relationship between construction structure, and architectural expression, through the work of early modernist architects Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos. The 2002 volume includes an anthology of primary texts by several theoreticians published in English. Details ISBN0521623464 Pages 282 Publisher Cambridge University Press Year 2002 Translator Lynnette Widder ISBN-10 0521623464 ISBN-13 9780521623469 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2002-07-04 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from German DEWEY 720.1 Author Lynnette Widder Edition 1st Short Title OTTO WAGNER ADOLF LOOS & THE R Language English Media Book Affiliation Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich DOI 10.1604/9780521623469 UK Release Date 2002-07-04 AU Release Date 2002-07-04 NZ Release Date 2002-07-04 Illustrations 111 Halftones, unspecified Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:91367067;

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