The Looshaus
By: Christopher Long
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300174533
Subjects: Buildings, structures; Criticism and interpretation; Modern movement (Architecture); Looshaus (Vienna, Austria)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: The competition; title: An isolated figure in the foreground; title: Explosions of light; title: The first designs; title: The discovery of Vienna; title: In praise of the present; title: Ornament and crime; title: A monstrosity; title: On architecture; title: An architect at war; title: The second competition; title: Breakdown; title: My building on Michaelerplatz; title: Triumph; title: A building and its time; title: Epilogue.