When Buildings Speak - Architecture As Language in Habsburg Empire Its Aftermath, 1867 1933

Explores the architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. This work shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language and its particular means of expression.

About the author

Anthony Alofsin is the Roland Gommel Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture and professor of art and art history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright: The Lost Years, 1910-1922 and The Struggle for Modernism: Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City Planning at Harvard. He is also the editor of Frank Lloyd Wright: Europe and Beyond.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Alofsin, Alofsin Anthony
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2008
• EAN: 9780226015071
• ISBN: 978-0-226-01507-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Dimensions: 222 mm x 279 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture