Christopher Long Books

In early September 1928, Viennese police arrested the famed architect Adolf Loos. The charge was child molestation. Two young girls (and eventually a third), ages eight to ten, alleged that Loos had touched them inappropriately and compelled them to commit indecent acts while he was drawing nudes of them. What followed was a very public affair that culminated in a sensational trial, pitting Loos and his supporters against his many detractors. But the controversy was about more than Loos' guilt: like almost everything in Austria in the late 1920s, those involved saw the events through powerful political and cultural lenses. The arrest and subsequent trial not only set the forces of the right against those of the left, but also the city's avant-gardists against their conservative critics. This volume documents the controversy. Christopher Long is Distinguished Professor at University of Texas, Austin School of Architecture, and the author of The Looshaus (Yale, 2012) and The New Space (Yale, 2016).

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In this book of eight essays, the noted architectural historian Christopher Long takes on the meanings of Adolf Loos's writings and design work, the cultural world in which he was embedded, and how he was regarded by this critics and public. Long exposes and explodes old myths about Loos, fosterint in the process a new, brinlant, and compelling view of one of modern architecture's key protagon?ists. V této knize osmi esejů se známý historik architektury Christopher Long zabývá významy spisů a designérské práce Adolfa Loose, kulturního světa, do kterého byl zasazen, a toho, jak na něj pohlíželi kritici a veřejnost. Long odhaluje a rozbíjí staré mýty o Loosovi, čímž podporuje nový, brilantní a přesvědčivý pohled na jednoho z klíčových protagonistů moderní architektury.

The never-before published memoir of design pioneer Paul T. Frankl, known for his Skyscraper furniture and work for Hollywood elite.Viennese émigré Paul T. Frankl was a pioneer of early modern design in America, known for his “Skyscraper” furniture of the 1920s and later for the work he did for Hollywood celebrities such as Fred Astaire, Alfred Hitchcock, Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. His autobiography, thought for decades to be lost, was written at the end of Frankl’s long career and is a vivid account of his early life, his rise in the profession, and his many travels in search of ideas and forms. What will now be known as Frankl’s last book is written in a captivating style befitting the personality of a gentle and cultured man who revolutionized and advocated for American modernism.This edition, hand-sewn with a printed linen cover, won a design award in Austria and is introduced and annotated by modern design scholar Christopher Long, author of Paul T. Frankl and Modern American Design (Yale 2007). The book includes a remembrance written by his daughter Paulette Frankl as well as many previously unpublished photographs and drawings.

An insightful and beautifully illustrated new perspective on the role of Central European émigré artists, architects, and designers on American modernism While the history of modernism in the United States is often seen as having roots in French art moderne, Jewel Stern and Christopher Long instead argue that Central European émigré designers had an outsized impact on the formation of a uniquely American modernism. The Vanguard examines the lives and careers of nearly fifty designers from Austria, Germany, and Hungary--including Paul T. Frankl, Ilonka Karasz, Winold Reiss, and Joseph Urban--who contributed to the early rise of modernism in America. From 1910 to 1940, these figures played a vital role in bringing to the fore the discussion of modernism and contributed to its ascendancy through their designs, writings, and exhibitions. Stern and Long reveal how this modernism reflected distinct American realities and tell a comprehensive new story of modernism's émigré roots. The Vanguard examines the lives and careers of these designers, many of whom are hazily known at best, and argues that they had a significant influence on the new modernist aesthetic. Deeply researched and lavishly illustrated with nearly 300 color and black-and-white images, this book offers a full reorientation of our understanding of American modernism and the role of Central Europeans in its formation.

Tato podnětná a inspirativní kniha od Christophera Longa, jednoho z předních odborníků na život a dílo Adolfa Loose, se zabývá posledními domy, které Loos navrhl v závěrečných třech letech svého života. Publikace vůbec poprvé představuje mnoho plánů a fotografií Loosových pozdních prací a naznačuje nové způsoby, jak je možné porozumět jeho koncepci Raumplanu i tomu, jak tento architekt přehodnotil své pojetí prostoru a dispozičního uspořádání.