Set within the fascinating cultural and political world of Vienna
from the fin-de-siecle to the present day, this book provides an
insightful analysis of the city's extraordinarily rich
architectural tradition. Since 1900, Vienna has produced many great
architects and their work includes some of the finest masterpieces
of the twentieth century, such as Otto Wagner's Stadtbahn stations,
his Postsparkasse and his Majolica House, Adolf Loos's American Bar
and Goldman & Salastch, the Secession building by Joseph Maria
Olbrich and Josef Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet. Beautifully
illustrated with paintings, drawings and photographs, the book
stresses the importance of the highly polarized cultural politics
that engulfed Vienna and produced much of what is modern in every
field of culture and science. It shows how leading cultural figures
such as Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg, Klimt and Twain encouraged a
'rebellious' architecture, which continued in later eras with the
Wiener Gruppe, amongst others. The book also relates architectural
history to the political economy that has shaped Vienna and
highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social
housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s.
Today, 60% of Vienna's population lives in the most successful
social housing in the world, which has proved to be an important
factor in stimulating the successful economy of the country as a
whole.
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