With Josef Frank (1885–1967), the acclaimed catalog accompanying the 2015/16 exhibition at the MAK in Vienna focuses on one of the most significant Austrian architects of the 20th century.

In addition to his groundbreaking architectural work, the catalog highlights a designer to whom international design owes important influences to this day: As an architect and “designer” who remains “contemporary” even today, Frank advocated a pragmatic design approach that prioritized social experience over formal qualities. Today more than ever, Frank’s ideas of an uncontrived and unpretentious functionality—aimed at an independently free, enlightened bourgeois culture of living and dwelling beyond stylistic dogmas and fashionable conventions—seem more relevant than ever.