Prepare a summary on Otto Wagner’s Modern Architecture including what constitutes a “modern” style and the role of the architect in facilitating it (found in “Style”).

Summary: Otto Wagner’s Modern Architecture
Read the brief chapters on “The Architect” (pp. 61-72) and “Style” (pp. 73-80) from:
Otto Wagner, Modern Architecture: A Guidebook for His Students to This Field of Art, third edition of 1902, translated by Harry Francis Mallgrave (Santa Monica, CA: The Getty Center, 1988).

These excerpted chapters are posted in a single .pdf file on the course Blackboard website in the Assignments folder, just under the Assignment 1 brief.

Then, in three to four typed pages provide a summary of both chapters, commenting and explaining key points Wagner makes. In Modern Architecture, Wagner comments on many contemporary architectural conditions in Vienna; look past some of these localized details and focus on his larger arguments concerning modernism.

Your summary should include discussion about Wagner’s assertions on:
1. the special role that architects have in modern society and in bringing about “modern architecture” (found in “The Architect”)
2. what constitutes a “modern” style and the role of the architect in facilitating it (found in “Style”).