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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Vienna itself a stage for the conversion of society to modernity was home to many pivotal figures of twentieth-century intellectual history Sigmund Freud Gustav Mahler Ludwig Wittgenstein Otto Wagner Arnold Schoenberg. and Gustav Klimt to name only a few. That historical and cultural legacy is nowhere more evident than in the architecture of Vienna a built record of the city’s rich past. VIENNA 1850-1930 is a lavish presentation of Vienna’s greatest built monuments. From neoclassicism to the secession to rationalist modernism Roberto Schezen captures the spirit of each building with vivid color photographs of the interiors exteriors and grounds. Twenty- eight works in all-including the Karl Marx Hof by Karl Ehn the Michaelerplatz Building by Adolf Loos the Villa Skywa-Primavesi by Josef Hoffmann the Steinhof Church by Otto Wagner the Secession Building by J. M. Olbrich and the Parliament by Theophil Hansen-are presented in all their splendor. Peter Haiko’s text accompanied by archival photographs and drawings gives a detailed history of each building. (OS)