![]() ![]() “It is simply an artistic absurdity,” he believed, for a man to spend his “life in interiors executed in the styles of past centuries.” “A man in a modern traveling suit,” he noted, “fits very well with the waiting room of a train station with sleeping cars, with all our vehicles.” Such sportswear was an easy complement to the industrialized and rapidly growing society of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth century Austria, and by Wagner’s light, was categorically distinguished from the “costumes” of past generations. The daily attire of the modern businessman or athlete provided a model for architecture in that they were stylish yet sleek, comfortable, well-made and practical for a wide range of uses. In elucidating his theory, Wagner applied the metaphor of fashion to building design. Extraneous ornament, therefore, was not only impractical and inefficient, it was also decidedly unmodern. The purpose of beauty, he argued, was to give artistic expression to function. Individual examples of modern architecture in Vienna can be found in Marxergasse or in the surroundings of the Gasometer am Erdberg.In his 1896 manifesto Modern Architecture, Wagner expressed his ideal of practical and efficiently designed architecture. The Hundertwasserhaus in Löwengasse was documented, as well as the waste processing plant in Spittelau. Church buildings integrated into street fronts can be found in our photographs of Taborstraße, Fleischmarkt or Freyung, for example. In addition to countless streets from the inner city, our archive also contains photographs along the shopping streets Kärntner Straße and Mariahilfer Straße, along the Wienzeile and of public buildings (Museumsquartier, Opera House, Justizpalast, Parliament, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, etc.). Vienna panoramas that we have already completed and published: As an artist, he developed his own idea of an architecture that was more in tune with nature and human needs, and by the 21st century he had realized a large number of buildings worldwide. It was also Vienna, where the architectural style of the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser emerged from the 1980s onwards, who implemented his first architectural projects here. This list of art nouveau buildings in Budapest shows how the Jugendstil influenced the empire. In Vienna, there are countless formative examples, beside the Vienna Secession, these are, among others, the Wienzeilenhäuser or stations of the Stadtbahn like the Karlsplatz Pavillon. JugendstilĪlso shaping the late imperial period of Austria is the Art Nouveau style (also called Austrian Secession style or Jugendstil in german), which is, besides artists such as Gustav Klimt, especially associated with its architecture of e.g. As the centre of the Habsburg Monarchy, it was then a cultural and political centre of Europe. Especially the time as imperial capital and residence city of the Austrian Empire from 1804 to about 1918 still shapes the image of the Austrian capital today. Bezirk), where baroque to gothic, but especially the architecture of the Wilhelminian period ( Gründerzeit) characterizes the architecture. We have documented mainly streets of the old town of Vienna within the Vienna Ringstraße (1. ![]() Our streetscapes from Vienna (german: Wien) mainly were photographed in 2014 and during the IVRPA conference in 2017. ![]()
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