Architecture and Modernity : A Critique

derlying aim of realizing a classless society was not achieved, the implicit promises of modern architecture also turned out to ...

71 Other contradictions are also inherent in the discourse of Das Neue Frankfurt. It was assumed, for instance, that there was s ...

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The Experience of Rupture In 1890 Hermann Bahr published a short essay in which he formulated the younger generation’s frustrati ...

The modern was present already, he argued. It could be seen everywhere in the world outside. It was, however, not yet present in ...

75 level of feelings and emotional relations: “Thus the metropolitan type of man— which of course exists in a thousand individua ...

well form an obstacle in the way of achieving this synthetic ideal. The latter opinion is shared by the authors that are discuss ...

77 could no longer live in it: “He thought, this is what it means to learn to go about life with one’s own corpse. Yes indeed. H ...

of demarcation and transitions was handled, in the structuring of the different areas, and in defining their relationship. The f ...

79 with their actual personalities.^17 This idea was essential to his assessment of moder- nity. Modernity, in his view, was syn ...

where it is built. Architects who take their profession seriously will be sensitive to the historical background provided by the ...

81 An Architecture of Differences Adolf Loos’s architectural work is further evidence of the need he felt to make dis- tinctions ...

40 Adolf Loos, Moller House, Vienna, 1928, front facade. (Photo: Albertina, ALA 2445.) ...

83 82 Adolf Loos, Moller House, plans and section. 41 ...

ity can be seen in the way Loos creates a choreography of arrivals and departures: through the frequent shifts in direction that ...

85 steps higher than the level of the hall; the music room, which is at the same level as the hall and which abuts on the rear f ...

ing room is dominated by the dining table and the Thonet chairs in the middle. Both the dining room and the music room are linke ...

87 86 Adolf Loos, Moller House, dining room seen from the music room. (Photo: Albertina, ALA 2454.) 45 ...

3 Reflections in a Mirror Adolf Loos, Moller House, stairs from the cloakroom to the central hall. (Photo: Albertina, ALA 2456.) ...

89 relation with the garden. The dominant feeling here is of a welcoming openness (figure 47). Beatriz Colomina observes that wi ...