Esther Da Costa Meyer: Tradition and Modernity in Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
Creators: name: Da Costa Meyer, Esther
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 1991
Subjects: Meyer, Esther da Costa, 1947-
woman historians
Vienna (Austria)
fin de siècle
Modern movement (Architecture)
ramparts
moats
middle class
Eclecticism in architecture
Renaissance revival (Architecture)
Florence (Italy)
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Schmidt, Friedrich von 1825-1891
Gothic revival (Architecture)
Wagner, Otto, 1841-1918
Hoffmann, Josef Franz Maria, 1870-1956
Historicism in architecture
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Wiener Secession
Olbrich, Joseph Maria, 1867-1908
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Sullivan, Louis H., 1856-1924
Klimt, Gustav, 1862-1918
pediments
acroteria
Art nouveau (Architecture)
Greek cross plan
Apollo (Deity)
Muses (Greek deities)
Facades
Glass
Building materials
Majolica
Decoration and ornament, Architectural
Simmel, Georg, 1858-1918
city dwellers
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
immigrants
Guimard, Hector, 1867-1942
Nature (Aesthetics)
plaster
Building, Stone
Horta, Victor, 1861-1947
Color in architecture
Painting
equality
Suburbs
Classicism in architecture
Schinkel, Karl Friedrich, 1781-1841
Berlin (Germany)
Symmetry
Bridges--design and construction
subway tunnels
Railroad stations
Steel
marble
Cast-iron fronts (Architecture)
Architecture, Baroque
barrel vaults
sunflowers in art
aluminum construction
cement
Geometry in architecture
plate glass
religious architecture
Lang, Fritz, 1890-1976
Metropolis (Motion picture : 1927)
Naval architecture
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Le Corbusier, 1887-1965. Vers une architecture. English
Danube River
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933
Plečnik, Jože, 1872-1957
Fabiani, Max, 1865-1962
Roofs--Design and construction
Vernacular architecture
Bahr, Hermann, 1863-1934
interior decoration
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940
pilasters
Decoration and ornament, Rococo
Lacquer and lacquering
plasterwork (visual works)
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
mass production
gilding
windowboxes
Colonnades
Rossi, Aldo, 1931-1997
International style (Architecture)
bay windows
friezes
key pattern
minimal art
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
raumplan
Prague (Czech Republic)
Courtyard houses
working class
tenement houses
Gemeindebau
Ehn, Karl 1884-1957
Hitler, Adolf, 1889-1945
Anschluss
Germany
Austria
assembly-line methods
Industrialization--Europe--History

description: Architectural projects and/or sites mentioned: Villa Max Friedmann (Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1898) (Hinterbrühl, Austria) ; Karlsplatz Stadtbahn Station (Otto Wagner, Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1899) (Vienna, Austria) ; Karlskirche (St. Charles Church) (Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach) (Vienna, Austria) ; Österreichische Postsparkasse (Wien) (Austrian Postal Savings Bank) (Otto Wagner, 1904-1906) (Vienna, Austria) ; Villa Hermann Bahr (Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1899) (Vienna, Austria) ; Villa Ast (Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, 1909-1911) (Vienna, Austria) ; Villa Skywa-Primavesi (Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, 1913-1915) (Vienna, Austria) ; Loos-Haus (Wien) (Adolf Loos, 1909) (Vienna, Austria) ; Strasser House (Adolf Loos, 1919) (Vienna, Austria) ; Scheu House (Adolf Loos, 1912) (Vienna, Austria) ; Villa Moller (Adolf Loos, 1927) (Vienna, Austria) ; Villa Müller (Prag) (Adolf Loos, 1930) (Prague, Czech Republic) ; Karl-Marx-Hof (Karl Ehn, 1927-1930) (Vienna, Austria) ; Wiener Ringstraße (Wien) (Ringstrasse) (Vienna, Austria) ; Universität Wien (University of Vienna) (1395) (Vienna, Austria) ; Wiener Rathaus (Vienna City Hall) (Friedrich von Schmidt) (Vienna, Austria) ; Scala Regia (Vatican Palace, Vatican City) (Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1663-1666) (Vatican City, Vatican City) ; Wiener Secessionsgebäude (Vienna Secession Building) (Joseph Maria Olbrich, 1898) (Vienna, Austria) ; Linke Wienzeile Buildings (Otto Wanger, 1898-1899) (Vienna, Austria) ; Wiener Stadtbahn (Vienna Metropolitan Railway) (Otto Wagner, 1898) (Vienna, Austria) ; Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Wien (The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna) (1692) (Vienna, Austria)
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