Otto Wagner

The American scholar Harry Mallgrave guides readers in their understanding of the work of Viennese architect Otto Wagner (1841-1918), from his training, to his role as Chief Councilor for Building for Vienna City Council, to his years of teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna. Favoring a bare style of architecture, no longer inspired by Nature, but based on the principles of construction and an honest use of materials, in his architecture he investigated the potential offered by industrially produced materials like glass, iron and concrete. He designed the stations of the Vienna underground; the dam and the building housing the administrative offices for the river at Nussdorf, in1897; Majolica House in Vienna, in 1900; and the Postbank in Vienna, in 1904.