Sezession House
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 | Sezession House |
| Designer | J. M. Olbrich |
| Location | Vienna, Austria |
| Date | 1896 |
| Building Type | art center |
| Climate | temperate |
| Context | urban |
| Architectural Style | Art Nouveau |
| Street Address | Friedrichstrasse 12 |
| Notes | Symmetrical composition with a singular ornamental dome |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/buildings/Sezession_House.html |
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"Its crowning element, based on a sketch by Klimt, was inscribed with the slogan: 'The time our art, the art our freedom.' Planned as a covered courtyard structure, the building provided for gallery space on all sides of a large top-lit rectangular exhibition hall in the centre."
"The general form of the crowning element sketched by Klimt included, in a vague outline, both the battered pylons and the gilded laurel motif with its dedication to Apollo. This last was rendered by Olbrich as a perforated metal dome, suspended between four pylons and set above profiled planar masses..."
— Kenneth Frampton and Yukio Futagawa. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. p100.
"As a shocking monument against conventional taste, the Secession building by Joseph Maria Olbrich in Vienna has sustained its contrary reputation shockingly well. Nose-thumbing gestures by brash architects are not always appreciated -- or even explicable -- years later as impassioned motives behind a rebellion cool and anneal into orthodoxy."
"But this white-walled temple to the arts, erected in 1898 as an exhibition space for young artists and designers Gustav Klimt, Koloman Moser, Max Kurzweil, Josef Hoffmann, Alfred Roller, Egon Schiele, and others unhappy with the stuffiness of Viennese academia, continues to stand out from its peers, and to do so quietly."
— "Vienna's Quiet Standout", by Richard B. Woodward, The Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2007. Page P14.
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Howard Davis. Slides from photographer's collection. PCD.2260.1012.1702.016. PCD.2260.1012.1702.015. PCD.2260.1012.1702.014. PCD.2260.1012.1702.013.
Kenneth Frampton. Modern Architecture 1851-1945. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. ISBN 0-8478-0506-9. LC 83-61363. NA642.F7 1983. ground floor plan, p101. section, p101. — Available at Amazon.com
Peter Gossel and Gabriele Leuthauser. Architecture in the Twentieth Century. Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1991. ISBN 3-8228-0550-5. exterior photo from side, discussion, p64.
Ian Latham. Joseph Maria Olbrich. New York: Rizzoli International Publications NA1011.5.04 L37. ISBN 0-8478-0230-2.
John Julius Norwich, ed. Great Architecture of the World. London: Mitchell Beazley Publishers, 1975. exterior photo, p222.Reprint edition: Da Capo Press, April 1991. ISBN 0-3068-0436-0. — An accessible, inspiring and informative overview of world architecture, with lots of full-color cutaway drawings, and clear explanations. available at Amazon.com
"Vienna's Quiet Standout", by Richard B. Woodward, The Wall Street Journal, April 28, 2007. Page P14.
