Rhetoric versus practice: 'limits' in early modernism
Lehmann, Guenter 2004, Rhetoric versus practice: 'limits' in early modernism, in Limits : proceedings of the 21st annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne 2004, Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand, Melbourne, Vic., pp. 261-266.
Limits : proceedings of the 21st annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand, Melbourne 2004
Editor(s)
Edquist, Harriet Frichot, Helen
Publication date
2004
Start page
261
End page
266
Publisher
Society of Architectural Historians Australia & New Zealand
Place of publication
Melbourne, Vic.
Summary
This paper looks at the relationship between rhetoric and practice in the early days of Modernism in Europe by two proponents, Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos. It interprets their 'discrepancies' not so much as limits but different forms of rhetoric.