Der Titel des Buches setzt die beiden Tätigkeitsfelder, das Bauen und das Schreiben, des Architekten, Architekturhistorikers und Theoretikers August Sarnitz in eine wechselseitige Beziehung: im Schreiben entsteht der Kontext zum Gebauten - so wie das Bauen im Kontext des Geschriebenen steht.  Eben diesem Wechselspiel folgt auch der Aufbau des Buches: einem Essay über Architekturgeschichte und Big Data folgen drei Aufsätze zu den Themen Städtebau, sozialem Wohnbau und der Fiktion des Raums. Auch einige prägende Wiener Architekten treten auf: Frank, Kiesler, Hollein und Prix. Die Themen Wohnen, Design und Möbel werden mit eigenen Projekten von Sarnitz illustriert; am Ende widmet sich das Buch der Architekturfotografie, die für Sarnitz als Publizisten große Bedeutung hat.

Relationen: Texte und Bauten (German Edition)

Arts & Photography

Sarnitz, August

Architecture

Birkhauser

Intense urban development and consistent modernisation have marked the last three decades in Vienna. This new architectural guide with its essays on urban culture, urban renewal and urban spaces is a reflection of this process. Approximately 300 objects are presented in the book’s main part by means of texts, photos and plans, each building localized and easy to find on the accompanying maps. This new guide will prove itself ideal both as a handy accompaniment on city strolls and as a reference work on new Viennese Architecture, and in that it offers an insight into the city’s Architectural Institutions and selected restaurants, cafés and bars.

Vienna - New Architecture 1975 - 2005

Reference

Language Study & Reference

Springer

August Sarnitz begleitet mit seinen bei Springer erschienenen Architekturführern die Architektur Wiens seit über einem Jahrzehnt. Der Guide fasst exemplarisch 700 Bauten, die in Wien zu besichtigen sind, aus allen Epochen und Baustilen zusammen. Einen Schwerpunkt setzen dabei – nicht zuletzt auch aus Erhaltungsgründen – die Bauten und die Stadtplanung der jüngeren Vergangenheit, die Wien ein modernes Gesicht verpassen. Der Baugeschichte sowie der durchaus kontrovers debattierten Stadterneuerung wird mit Essays namhafter Spezialisten und Kritiker Rechnung getragen, welche dem Leser einen differenzierten Blick auf die exemplarische Bautensammlung des Guides ermöglichen und planerische Zusammenhänge sichtbar machen. Die lexikalische Qualität der Indices zu Chronologie und Architekten, die Essays zu Baustilen, Geschichte und Stadtplanung sowie das Kartenmaterial machen den Wien-Guide zu einem unverzichtbaren Vademecum sowohl für Touristen als auch für alle an Architektur Interessierte.

Architektur Wien: 700 Bauten (German Edition)

This new guide discusses 700 buildings from all periods built in all styles that can be seen in Vienna. A focal point is on the more recent building and planning schemes that have given Vienna a new image – also in terms of preservation. Essays by recognized specialists and critics address the controversial debate on city renewal and give the reader a differentiated view of the exemplary collection of buildings featured in the guide to help readers visualize planning relationships. The book is illustrated with photos and plans of the projects by district. Projects can be found easily in detailed maps.

Architecture Vienna: 700 Buildings

Loos

Taschen Deutschland GmbH+

Adolf Loos

Taschen

Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country’s architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all-out rejected the grand Secessionist aesthetic prevalent at the time, as well as any hallmarks of the European fin de siècle.Instead, in lectures and essays, such as the milestone Ornament and Crime of 1908, Loos articulated his “passion for smooth and precious surfaces.” He advocated that architectural ornamentation was, by its nature, ephemeral―locked into current trends and styles, and therefore quickly dated. Loos, himself a Classicist at heart, argued instead for simple, timeless designs with time-honored aesthetic and structural qualities.In this essential introduction, we explore Loos’s writings, projects, and legacy, from his key concept of “spatial plan” architecture to his rejection of decorative fripperies in favor of opulent, fine-quality materials and crisp lines. Featured projects include Vienna’s Café Museum (1899), the fashion store Knize (1913), and the controversial Loos House (1912), which Emperor Franz Joseph I would refuse to travel past, bristling with rage at its insolently minimalist aesthetic.

Adolf Loos (Basic Art)

History & Criticism

Josef Hoffmann 1870-1956: In the Realm of Beauty

Hoffmann

Before aesthete, designer, and architect Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) came along, Austrian architecture and design was suffocating under a surfeit of opulent ornamentation and bombastic flourish. With his radical new approach and a band of like-minded figures, Hoffmann was a founding father of the Viennese Secession and Wiener Werkstätte and revolutionized Western aesthetics with a brave new minimalism.
This essential introduction explores Hoffmann’s key ideas, projects, and designs to understand his radical aesthetics and their continued influence on European architecture and design, from monochrome interior schemes to the cutlery we put on the table. We explore his integral role at the center of both the Vienna Secession in 1897 and the Wiener Werkstätte, and his commitment to stylistic purity, including some of Europe’s first major modernist buildings, such as the Purkersdorf Sanatorium (1904) and the Palais Stoclet (1905–1911).

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Relationen: Texte und Bauten (German Edition)

Vienna - New Architecture 1975 - 2005

Vienna - New Architecture 1975 - 2005

Architektur Wien: 700 Bauten (German Edition)

Architecture Vienna: 700 Buildings

Loos

Adolf Loos

Adolf Loos (Basic Art)

Hoffmann

Hoffmann