Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937

Eva Blau; Monika Platzer

ISBN 10: 379132151X / ISBN 13: 9783791321516

Published by Prestel, Munich, London, New York, 1999

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30.5 x 24.5 cm. Quarto. 272 pages. Black cloth in dust jacket. Some toning to the top of the dust jacket and the edges of the pages. Rear dust jacket flap is lightly clipped. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937
• Publisher: Prestel, Munich, London, New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 379132151X
• ISBN 13: 9783791321516
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Architecture

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Synopsis

This is a study on the explosion of architectural ideas during the last decades of the Hapsburg Empire and in the first years of the new republics of Central Europe. Despite the cultural battleground of competing linguistic, ethnic, religious and natural traditions and aspirations, the region was nevertheless host to a persistent cosmopolitan ideal. This publication looks at the city as both the principal site of innovation and experimentation in the period and the generator of a vibrant urban culture.

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Hard to Find book