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Article: A Forgotten Pioneer of Modern Architecture. .(Josef Frank -- Life and Work)(Book Review)
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- Architectural Science Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2003
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Josef Frank -- Life and Work, by Christopher Long. University of Chicago Press, 142.7 East 60th Street, Chicago IL 6063 7-2954, 2003. 384 pp., ill., index. Price: $US 70.00.
Christopher Long, Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Design at the University of Texas in Austin, has a produced a scholarly study of the work of Josef Frank, lavishly illustrated with designs of his buildings and furniture, some in colour, taken from original sources. Today Josef Frank is unknown outside Austria and Sweden, where he fled as Austrian fascism and the menace of a German invasion grew. Indeed, he is not particularly well-known even in those two ...