White, everything white? Josef Frank’s Villa Beer (1930) in Vienna, and its materiality in the context of the discourse on ‘white cubes’

Abstract In 2017 a group of conservators-restorers conducted a conservation-science study of the materials used in the construction of Josef Frank’s main work, the Villa Beer (1930) in Vienna-Hietzing, and of the building’s surfaces. The study was an opportunity to find evidence indicating whether t...

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Main Author: Ivo B. Hammer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-09-01
Series:Built Heritage
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s43238-020-00011-9