Style-Architecture and Building-Art: Transformations of Architecture in the Nineteenth Century and Its Present Condition

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Hermann MuthesiusIntroduction and translation by Stanford Anderson Style-Architecture and Building-Art (1902) is Hermann Muthesius's trenchant manifesto on early European Modernism. Now published for the first time in English, this classic study followed in the wake of Otto Wagner's Modern Architecture (1896) and reinforced the latter's exhortations with its vigorous plea for realism and simplicity in design. Although Muthesius (1861–1927) was an architect by training, he is best known for his stay in London…