In this book, Eve Blau looks at how ideological conflict shapedthe buildings of Red Vienna—in terms of their program, spatialconception, language, and use—as well as how political meaning itselfis manifested in architecture.
In 1919 the Social Democrat city council of Vienna initiated a radical program of reforms designed to reshape the city's infrastructure along socialist lines. The centerpiece and most enduring achievement of "Red" Vienna was the construction of the Wiener Gemeindebauten, 400 communal housing blocks, distributed throughout the city, in which workers' dwellings were incorporated with kindergartens, libraries, medical clinics, theaters, cooperative stores, and other public facilities. The 64,000 units housed one tenth of the city's population. Throughout this socialist building campaign, however, Austria was ruled by a conservative, clerical, and antisocialist political majority. Thus the architecture of Red Vienna took shape in the midst of highly charged, and often violent, political conflict between left and right. In this book, Eve Blau looks at how that ideological conflict shaped the buildings of Red Vienna—in terms of their program, spatial conception, language, and use—as well as how political meaning itself is manifested in architecture. She shows how the architecture of Red Vienna constructed meaning in relation to the ideological conflicts that defined Austrian politics in the interwar period—how it was shaped by the conditions of its making, and how it engaged its own codes, practices, and history to stake out a political position in relation to those conditions. Her investigation sheds light both on the complex relationship among political program, architectural practice, and urban history in interwar Vienna, and on the process by which architecture can generate a collective discourse that includes all members of society. Published with the assistance of the Getty Grant Program.
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Eve Blau is Lecturer in Architecture at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
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Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. This is a very good hardcover copy with a very good dust jacket with light wear. The jacket is not sunned or clipped. Completely clean inside and out. Massive study of Vienna's Wiener Gemeindebauten, about 400 workers housing blocks that were constructed in Vienna bwtween 1919 and 1934. Illustrated with 28 color plates + hundreds of black & white images. 10" square, 509 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. N° de réf. du vendeur 018623
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 509 pages. The first comprehensive look at the architecture created at the direction of the Social Democratic city council of Vienna. Features text by Eve Blau. Includes numerous illustrations. A tight near fine copy in black cloth boards with some bumping to the top rear corner and some slight creasing to the top corner of the first few pages and in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear. Still a very pleasing copy. N° de réf. du vendeur 200729
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