Product Description

This book seeks to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the century.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2266972 in Books
• Published on: 2000-08-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
A thorough and engaging book....Stewart's book is an important and welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on Loos, for it is the first comprehensive study of his texts that seriously attempts to account for their contradictory and paradoxical nature in a positive manner....Stewart's book provides rich material for understanding Loos's cultural criticism and should inspire further work on how such criticism relates to his architecture and to other fields for which modernity and modernism are important yet problematic concepts.
–Centropa: A Journal of Central European Art and Architecture

A thorough and engaging book....Stewarts book is an important and welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on Loos, for it is the first comprehensive study of his texts that seriously attempts to account for their contradictory and paradoxical nature in a positive manner....Stewarts book provides rich material for understanding Looss cultural criticism and should inspire further work on how such criticism relates to his architecture and to other fields for which modernity and modernism are important yet problematic concepts.
–Centropa: A Journal of Central European Art and Architecture

Stewarts book marks a departure from previous exploratons of Loo's writings... Stewart offers a remarkably lucid, nuanced and often perceptive account of Loo's texts and their cultural frame. Her meticulously crafted analysis operates, she tells us, through the parallel processes of decosntruction, assemblage and reconstruction. ... This method works very well in documenting the oppositions that underlie much of Loo's thought....perhaps the most complete and sharply drawn picture to date in English of Loos as cultural critic.
–Harvard Design Magazine

Stewarts book marks a departure from previous exploratons of Loos writings... Stewart offers a remarkably lucid, nuanced and often perceptive account of Loos texts and their cultural frame. Her meticulously crafted analysis operates, she tells us, through the parallel processes of decosntruction, assemblage and reconstruction. ... This method works very well in documenting the oppositions that underlie much of Loos thought....perhaps the most complete and sharply drawn picture to date in English of Loos as cultural critic.
–Harvard Design Magazine

While Adolf Loos is well known as one of the key representatives of early modernist architectures, holding his own next to such figures as Louis Sullivan, Frank lloyd Wright and Otto Wagner, a wider public does not yet know the scope of his work and writings. Janet Stewart's fascinating new study fianlly provides a corrective to this limited and specialized reception of Loos.
–Modernism/Modernity

While Adolf Loos is well known as one of the key representatives of early modernist architectures, holding his own next to such figures as Louis Sullivan, Frank lloyd Wright and Otto Wagner, a wider public does not yet know the scope of his work and writings. Janet Stewarts fascinating new study fianlly provides a corrective to this limited and specialized reception of Loos.
–Modernism/Modernity