When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933

Alofsin, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0226015068 ISBN 13: 9780226015064

Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2006

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T�tulo

When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933

Editor

University of Chicago Press

Fecha de publicaci�n

2006

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0226015068

ISBN 13

9780226015064

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition

Estado

Fine

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Fine

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In "When Buildings Speak", Anthony Alofsin explores the rich yet often overlooked architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. He shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Moreover, he contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language and its particular means of expression.Covering a wide range of buildings - from national theaters to crematoria, apartment buildings to warehouses, and sanatoria to postal savings banks - Alofsin proposes a new way of interpreting this language. He calls on viewers to read buildings in two ways: through their formal elements and through their political, social, and cultural contexts. By looking through Alofsin's eyes, readers can see how myriad nations sought to express their autonomy by tapping into the limitless possibilities of art and architectural styles. And such architecture can still speak very powerfully to us today about the contradictory issues affecting parts of the former Habsburg Empire.

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Anthony Alofsin is the Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture and professor of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 and The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard. He is also the editor of Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond.

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