'Varietas, Mediocritas' and 'Annehmlichkeit': The Reception of the Classical Tradition in the Work of Josef Frank and Its Viennese Context
The theoretical work of the Viennese architect Josef Frank (1885–1967) illustrates a continuous reflection on the Italian Renaissance tradition. This study seeks to gain new insights into Frank’s complex and optimistic 20th-century ‘classicism’ and to identify the Renaissance categories Frank used i...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-05-01
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| Series: | Architectural Histories |
| Online Access: | https://journal.eahn.org/articles/424 |