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A national bestseller with more than 370,000 copies in print, this is "the first book that anyone who wants to learn about Hitler or the war in Europe must read... a marvel of fact."--Newsweek

Adolf Loos not only was part of the first wave of modern architecture but also served as an important source of inspiration for all architects who followed. He is emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. Loos’s masterful “astylistic architecture” is captured in this volume by the esteemed photographer Roberto Schezen in over one hundred exceptional photographs.Starting with the refurbishment of his own apartment in 1903, twenty of Loos’s most significant buildings are beautifully displayed: Villa Karma, the Kärntner Bar, the Goldman & Salatsch Michaelerplatz Building, the Zentralsparkasse Bank, and the Steiner, Scheu, Moller, and Müller houses. Schezen’s vivid color and luminous black-and-white photographs display each building in detail, showing both the formal characteristics and the rich textures and materials Loos most frequently used.Complementing this remarkable visual material is Kenneth Frampton’s perceptive essay, which places Loos within the context of Viennese intellectuals of the time. His circle, which included Arnold Schönberg, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and at the center, Karl Kraus, explored the essential nature of architecture, and the other arts and sciences, through linguistic structures. Frampton identifies the hallmarks that Loos derived from these structures and with which he created his work: the blank, “degree-zero” exterior with its luxurious interior; his commentary on architecture’s position between art and function, plus subtle recollections of both the classic and the vernacular. All these ploys were to subvert typical architectural expectations. Joseph Rosa’s accompanying descriptions comprehensively discuss each building, from the circumstances surrounding the realization of the projects to the use of Loos’s architectural conventions.

Adolf Hitler is often held responsible for more evil and suffering than any man in history. Hitler was unstoppable ...the more one delves into Hitler's life, the more complex it appears. Many myths shroud his life. His name inspired both admiration and dread, turning into a symbol of strength. Hitler believed that no other people as much as the German race had the right to control the world and was aware that this ambitious goal could not be achieved without warfare. Often held responsible for more - The chant of hail Hitler - became commonplace in rallies as well as verbal written communication. There were many sides to Hitler, often not accessible to public. Emerging as a universal spirit, the Fuhrer almost invariably managed to generate strong feelings; the ripples are felt even today...

A documentation and analysis of the work of the Austrian Modernist architect, Adolf Loos.

Explora el alzamiento de Adolf Hitler ¿Fue Hitler, tal y como preguntó Ian Kershaw, una consecuencia natural de la historia alemana o una aberración? No es que Hitler hubiera estado escondido, esperando para atacar. El Führer realmente había estado siguiendo una política exterior agresiva y salvaje durante casi diez años, y fue nombrado Hombre del Año por la revista Time en 1938. Este no es un libro sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial, sino sobre el hombre, Adolf Hitler, uno de los rostros y nombres que todavía despiertan los sentimientos más fuertes -repulsión, resentimiento e incluso fanatismo- pero que también tuvo una infancia y una juventud, un padre y una madre. Es el camino que le llevó a la locura -que comenzó ese día en agosto de 1934 cuando tomó el poder absoluto y ordenó fidelidad y lealtad únicamente a su persona- de lo que trata este libro. Algunos de los temas tratados en este libro incluyen: Los orígenes de HitlerSu inicioLa capital antisemita de EuropaMúnichPrimera Guerra MundialLa Ascensión de HitlerMI luchaSu caídaLos restos de Adolf Hitler¡Y mucho más que no te quieres perder!

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The enormous pictorial, literary, and musical work of Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), the classic master of Art Brut, came into being exclusively during his thirty-five-year internment in a mental asylum. Diagnosed, perhaps wrongly, as a paranoid schizophrenic, Wolfli organized his work into an increasingly grand narrative structure that exerts a profound and lasting impact on readers and viewers with its intense visionary imagery. This is the first book to encompass all of Wolfli's work, including his writings and musical compositions. The authors approach the phenomenon Wolfli from a variety of perspectives that delineate and clarify the structure of the artist's work and assess its connections to modern art. The chronology and composition of his work are presented in the context of art history. Text analyses bring new understanding to his writing. His cosmic experiences and the elaboration of his number systems are seen in relation to philosophical concepts. Beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated, this volume traces the path of Wolfli's art on its long road from the asylum to the museum.

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Adolf Galland was the most famous German fighter pilot of World War II, and until his death in February 1996 he was the last surviving senior German combat commander of that war. An "ace" pilot with more than 100 air-to-air victories in the West, he was also the last living recipient of the supreme decoration for gallantry and leadership - the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, awarded to only 27 men among the millions who served. His combat career spanned an extraordinary period in aviation history, from flying open-cockpit biplanes in the Spanish Civil War, through command of a wing of Messerschmitt Bf109s in the fiercest fighting of the Battle of Britain, to leadership of a unique "aces' squadron" flying the world's first jet fighters against impossible odds in the last weeks of the war.But Adolf Galland's story is much more than the straightforward account of a fighter pilot's war. His meteoric promotion made him, at 30, the youngest general in the German armed forces; and his appointment as inspector-general of fighter forces brought him into regular and sometimes perilous contact with the leaders of the Third Reich. He was the recipient of Hitler's private musings about his global war aims; he was the fearless champion of the fighting pilots against the ranting disloyalty of Goering; he worked closely with the brilliant munitions minister Albert Speer; and in the end his outspoken refusal to compromise brought dismissal, and investigation by the Gestapo - his life or death finally turning on the result of a single telephone call.

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Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with underclass tattooing in an attempt to tell modern Europeans that they should know better. But the negation of ornament was supposed to reveal, not negate, good style; and an incorrigible ironist has been taken too literally in denying architecture as a fine art. Without normalizing his edgy radicality, Masheck argues that Loos's masterful "astylistic architecture" was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck has reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. Far from being the anti-architect of the modern era, Masheck's Loos is 'an unruly yet integrally canonical artist-architect'.He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy and advocated the evolution of artful architecture. This is a brilliantly written revisionist reading of a perennially popular architect.

Der Theologe Adolf Keller war einer der Pioniere der okumenischen Bewegung fur Praktisches Christentum und wahrend 20 Jahren pragend fur den Evangelischen Kirchenbund der Schweiz. Nach dem 1. Weltkrieg vermittelte er die Kontakte zwischen den Kirchen Nordamerikas und Europas. 1925 wurde er Zweiter Generalsekretar der Bewegung fur Praktisches Christentum und damit Leiter des Internationalen Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts. 1934 grundete er das Okumenische Seminar, Vorlaufer des Institut oecumenique de Bossey, das er auch leitete. Auf seinen Anstoss war 1922 die Europaische Zentralstelle fur kirchliche Hilfsaktionen (Inter-Church Aid) entstanden, die Kirchen in Europa, in der Sowjetunion und im Orient unterstutzte. Er trat gegen den Nationalsozialismus ein und engagierte sich fur judische Fluchtlinge. Marianne Jehle-Wildberger legt nicht nur eine gut recherchierte Biographie des bedeutenden Okumenikers Keller vor, sondern eroffnet zugleich neue Perspektiven zur Geschichte der okumenischen Bewegung. Marianne Jehle-Wildberger, Jahrgang 1937, Historikerin und Lehrerin, Mitautorin der St. Galler Kantonsgeschichte (Kirchengeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert), ist Autorin des im TVZ erschienenen Bandes Das Gewissen sprechen lassen. Die Haltung der Evangelisch-reformierten Kirche des Kantons St. Gallen zum Kirchenkampf, zur Fluchtlingsnot und zur Fluchtlingspolitik 1933-1948.

As new in original shrink-wrap, 312 pages, heavily illustrated. "Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a Viennese architect known for his radical building facades. Author Ralf Bock reveals the sensuality of Loos's interior designs, demonstrating that Loos was not an architect of the "white modern movement," but rather, he fought against it. A careful analysis of Loos's ideology and oeuvre, this book features 30 existing projects in 160 extraordinary full-color images by the celebrated French photographer Philippe Ruault, who has completely rephotographed Loos's works. These new images offer different interpretations of Loos' interiors and bring him back to the center of contemporary architectural debate. The color photographs are supplemented by archival photos from the Loos Archive of the Albertina, Vienna, and a completely new set of project drawings."

Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with underclass tattooing in an attempt to tell modern Europeans that they should know better. But the negation of ornament was supposed to reveal, not negate, good style; and an incorrigible ironist has been taken too literally in denying architecture as a fine art. Without normalizing his edgy radicality, Masheck argues that Loos's masterful "astylistic architecture" was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck has reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. Far from being the anti-architect of the modern era, Masheck's Loos is 'an unruly yet integrally canonical artist-architect'.He believed in culture, comfort, intimacy and privacy and advocated the evolution of artful architecture. This is a brilliantly written revisionist reading of a perennially popular architect.

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