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SUMMARY:Tanner Lectures 2012: "The Viennese Interior: Architecture & Inwar
 dness" - Professor Joseph Leo Koerner\, Harvard University
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DESCRIPTION:Vienna took its interiors seriously.  Between 1898 and 1938\, 
 many of this city’s greatest minds grappled with how to structure and ap
 point the inner spaces of everyday life.  The result—the modern home—w
 ould possess an interior that (according to its creators) fitted another\,
  more impenetrable interior:  the subjective inwardness of the home’s in
 habitants.  Built architecture and psychic sphere\, the Viennese interior 
 was a contested matrix of human values. The novelist Hermann Broch portray
 ed fin-de siècle Vienna as a 'value vacuum'. These lectures explore Vienn
 ese homemaking as attempts to fill that vacuum.\n\nLecture One\, titled 'T
 he Kiss' and focused on the 1902 Beethoven exhibition held in the Secessio
 n building\, pays special attention to the innovative use of plaster in a 
 new 'art of space' —what Viennese artists and designers termed Raumkunst
 . \n\nLecture Two\, 'The Burning Child'\, considers Sigmund Freud’s apar
 tment and offices at Berggasse 19\, the house Ludwig Wittgenstein designed
  for his sister Hermine\, Adolf Loos’s early residential projects\, and 
 the design reforms of Josef Frank and Otto Neurath. \n\nThe relevance of t
 hese utopian interiors today—it will be argued—rests on the condition 
 of Vienna as an unhomely home.  Already before the ruptures of 1918 and 19
 38 buried its imagined future\, this European capital city had been the re
 hearsal space for exile.  The Viennese interior thus continues poignantly 
 to ask: what is home?   \n\nFor more information\, visit http://www.clareh
 all.cam.ac.uk/index.php?id=1163
LOCATION:Auditorium\, Robinson College
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