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Description:Chapters: Austrian Architectural Historians, Adolf Loos, Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach, Joseph Emanuel Fischer Von Erlach, Josef Strzygowski, Ebba Koch, Hans Sedlmayr. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 23 August 1933) was a Moravian-born Austrian/Czechoslovakian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau. In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture. Born in 1870 in Brno (Bruenn), Moravia, Austria, to an ethnically German family, Loos was only nine when his stonemason father died. A rebellious boy who rather lost his bearings, he failed in various attempts to get through architecture school. Contracting syphilis in the brothels of Vienna, by 21 he was sterile and in 1893 his mother disowned him. He stayed in America for three years, he had an uncle living in Philadelphia, he visited the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, appreciated the work of Louis Sullivan, visited St. Louis and did odd jobs in New York. He somehow found himself in that process and returned to Vienna in 1896 a man of taste and intellectual refinement, immediately entering the Viennese intelligentsia. His friends subsequently included Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arnold Schonberg, Peter Altenberg and Karl Kraus. He quickly established himself as the preferred architect of Viennas cultured bourgeoisie. Diagnosed with cancer in 1918, his stomach, appendix and part of his intestine were removed. For the rest of his life he could only digest ham and cream. He had several unhappy marriages. By the time he was fifty he was almost comp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5360We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Austrian Architecture Writers: Austrian Architectural Historians, Adolf Loos, Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach. To get started finding Austrian Architecture Writers: Austrian Architectural Historians, Adolf Loos, Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2010

ISBN: 1157774067

Description: Chapters: Austrian Architectural Historians, Adolf Loos, Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach, Joseph Emanuel Fischer Von Erlach, Josef Strzygowski, Ebba Koch, Hans Sedlmayr. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 23 August 1933) was a Moravian-born Austrian/Czechoslovakian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau. In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture. Born in 1870 in Brno (Bruenn), Moravia, Austria, to an ethnically German family, Loos was only nine when his stonemason father died. A rebellious boy who rather lost his bearings, he failed in various attempts to get through architecture school. Contracting syphilis in the brothels of Vienna, by 21 he was sterile and in 1893 his mother disowned him. He stayed in America for three years, he had an uncle living in Philadelphia, he visited the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, appreciated the work of Louis Sullivan, visited St. Louis and did odd jobs in New York. He somehow found himself in that process and returned to Vienna in 1896 a man of taste and intellectual refinement, immediately entering the Viennese intelligentsia. His friends subsequently included Ludwig Wittgenstein, Arnold Schonberg, Peter Altenberg and Karl Kraus. He quickly established himself as the preferred architect of Viennas cultured bourgeoisie. Diagnosed with cancer in 1918, his stomach, appendix and part of his intestine were removed. For the rest of his life he could only digest ham and cream. He had several unhappy marriages. By the time he was fifty he was almost comp...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=5360We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Austrian Architecture Writers: Austrian Architectural Historians, Adolf Loos, Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach. To get started finding Austrian Architecture Writers: Austrian Architectural Historians, Adolf Loos, Johann Bernhard Fischer Von Erlach, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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