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ISSUES & DEBATES

Otto Wagner

Reflections on the Raiment of Modernity

Edited by Harry Francis Mallgrave

CONTENTS

xi Preface

i Introduction

Harry Francis Mallgrave

PART i: OPPOSED OR CONFRONTED?

21 Otto Wagner's Unsuccessful Parallel-Aktion

Renata Kassal-Mikula

53 The Franz Josef-Stadtmuseum: The Attempt to

Implement a Theory of Modern Architecture

Peter Haiko

85 Realism versus Verniedlichung:

The Design of the Great City

August Sarnitz

115 Iron and Stone: The Architecture of the Groftstadt

Fritz Neumeyer

PART n: CONTRARY OR C O M P L E M E N T A R Y FACES?

157 Modernist Dioscuri? Otto Wagner and

Hendrik Petrus Berlage

Iain Boyd Whyte

199 The Aesthetics of the Mask: The Critical Reception of

Wagner's Moderne Architektur and Architectural

Theory in Central Europe

Akos Moravdnszky

PART in: THE C H A N G I N G D I A L E C T I C S

OF M O D E R N I T Y

243 From Historicism to Architectural Realism:

On Some of Wagner's Sources

/. Duncan Berry

281 From Realism to Sachlichkeit: The Polemics of

Architectural Modernity in the 1890s

Harry Francis Mallgrave

323 Sachlichkeit and Modernity, or Realist Architecture

Stanford Anderson

363 The Evolutionary Way to Modern Architecture:

The Paradigm of Stilhulse und Kern

Werner Oechslin

411 Biographical Notes on the Authors

415 Index