Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture Since Otto Wagner

She has been a visiting Fellow at MIT and the National University of Singapore and is a researcher at the Technical University of Delft.. Liane Lefaivre is Professor and Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria

The book also places architectural history within the context of the political economy that has shaped Vienna and highlights the relatively unknown tradition of Viennese social housing, initiated by social democratic Red Vienna in the 1920s. Since 1900, Vienna has produced many great architects and their work includes some of the finest masterpieces of the twentieth century such as Otto Wagner’s Stadtbahn stations, his Postsparkasse and his Majolica House, Adolf Loos’s American Bar and Goldman & Salastch, the Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich, and Jose

She has been a visiting Fellow at MIT and the National University of Singapore and is a researcher at the Technical University of Delft.. About the AuthorLiane Lefaivre is Professor and Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria