Introduction -- Versions of architectural truth -- Truth, Vienna and the history of modern architecture -- Fin-de-siecle Vienna : current debates -- 1. The secession building : multiple truths and modern art -- Modern art, modern architecture -- The multiple truth of the secession building -- 2. The Purkersdorf Sanatorium and the appearance of science -- An architecture for modern nerves -- A designed truth -- The subsequent history and historiography of the Purkersdorf Sanatorium -- 3. The Postal Savings Bank : pragmatism and "inner truth" -- The building -- Frugality as ideology : The Imperial and Royal Austrian Postal Savings Bank -- "Above all a functional building" : Otto Wagner and the Postal Savings Bank -- The completed building : a mathematical equation? -- 4. The Michaelerplatz Building, an honest mask -- Client and architect : a meeting of minds -- "A monster of a building" : the Michaelerplatz Building and the controversy over the facade
Tailoring, truth and the modern mask -- A "really Viennese" building
