Karl Marx Hof
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 | Karl Marx Hof |
| Designer | Karl Ehn |
| Location | Vienna, Austria |
| Date | 1930 |
| Building Type | multifamily housing |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Early Modern |
| Street Address | Heiligenstader Strasse 82-92 |
| Notes | large archways through block of building make symmetrical figures with balconies. |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Karl_Marx_Hof.html |
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"The contrast with the aims and methods of American Redevelopment could hardly be more striking. The most eloquent masterpiece among the groups was surely Darl Ehn's Heiligenstadt Houses (the Karl Marx Hof) of 1927-1930—a mighty fortress, where the major facade is a proud, dark banner of socialist solidarity. It was to be stormed alike by the troops of Dollfuss and the Red Army. It clearly infuriated many people, a little bit as the Guild House does today, but its powerful shapes, Piranesian on the exterior but much more gently articulated in the lovely garden courtyards, in fact historically culminate and bring to an enormous social climax the special Viennese tradition of Otto Wagner and his school. The scale is grander, like that of all the Viennese housing, than that of the Guild House, but the two buildings are related insofar as they both gesture like signboards to tell us what they are about. How correct the gentle irony of the American example is in this particular instance, and how stirring the Austrian's truimphant deployment: in simple political fact daring hell and surviving."
— Vincent Scully, Jr. Modern Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy. p54.
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Howard Davis. Slide from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1702.023. PCD.2260.1012.1702.022. PCD.2260.1012.1702.021
Kenneth Frampton. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. main elevation, p303. — Available at Amazon.com
Vincent Scully, Jr. Modern Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy. Revised Edition. New York: George Braziller, 1974. SBN 0-8076-0159-4. LC 61-13689. NA680.S395 1974. discussion p54.
Dennis Sharp. Twentieth Century Architecture: a Visual History. New York: Facts on File, 1990. ISBN 0-8160-2438-3. NA680.S517. exterior photos, p112. — Available at Amazon.com
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