In three to four typed pages provide a summary of both chapters, commenting and explaining key points Wagner makes. In Modern Architecture, Wagner comments on many contemporary architectural conditions in Vienna; look past some of these localized details and focus on his larger arguments concerning modernism.
Summary: Otto Wagner’s Modern Architecture Read the brief chapters on “The Architect” (pp. 61-72) and “Style” (pp. 73-80) from: Otto Wagner, Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art, third edition of 1902, translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave (Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Center, 1988). These excerpted chapters are posted in […]