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8 VILLA WAGNER BY OTTO WAGNER Year 1905 Status Project Material Paper Glue Scale 1:100 Model maker Barbara Gruber Otto Wagner was born in 1841 in Vienna. He studied engineering and architecture in Berlin from 1860 to 1861 and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1861 to 1862. From 1894 to 1913, Otto Wagner was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts himself. Wagner’s most famous works are his villas, his apartment buildings, as well as the bridges and the stations for the Wiener Stadtbahn, the St. Leopold church at Steinhof and the Postsparkasse in Vienna.1 The 1905 Villa Wagner was a project for a building site next to the river Halterbach, on the western outskirts of Vienna. The building was going to be placed on the opposite side of the street to the earlier 1888 Villa Wagner. Wagner designed a free-standing family house. This time, the entrance was asymmetrically placed at one side of the building and not centred as it was in the first Villa Wagner. The ground floor, which contained the dining and living room, was raised approximately two meters above ground level. The private rooms were located on the first floor. According to Wagner, only the most modern building techniques, such as reinforced concrete, with a roof covered in asphalt, were to be used for the project.2 1 Geretsegger, Heinz; Peintner, Max (1964): Otto Wagner (1841 – 1918). Salzburg, Wien: Residenz Verlag. 9-24. 2 Nierhaus, Andreas; Orosz, Eva-Maria (Ed.) (2018): Otto Wagner. Wien: Residenz Verlag. 398.