Rebel Modernists: Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner

Introduction; 1. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna and the Culture Wars: Modern-Antimodern; 2. Otto Wagner: Rebel; 3. The Next Generation: The Wagner School, Hoffmann and Loos; 4. After the Apocalypse: Post-World War I, the Social Housing of Red Vienna and its Social Democratic Political Economy; 5. Between Two Wars: From Apocalypse and to the Anschluss - Other Modern Architectures 1919-1938; 6. Nazi Ostmark, 1938-1945; 7.1945-1970: Waltzing into the Cold War - Reconstruction and the Memory Problem; 8. The Kreisky Era: Economic Prosperity and Culture Wars; 9. After the Shock Therapy, Renewal; 10. Social Housing; Conclusion; Index

'Vienna has been in the vanguard of architecture for the past three centuries. This survey covers all the key figures to explain how this small city has maintained its fascinating radical traditions and an architecture of surprising social equity.'