The Habsburg monarchy played a significant role in the development of modern culture. Here Akos Moravanszky presents the first comparative study of the architecture of the countries that defined the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from 1867 to 1918. The book also explores problems faced by artists and architects of the time as they pushed the limits of their freedom. 325 illustrations.
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The Habsburg monarchy played a significant role in the development of modern culture. Here Akos Moravanszky presents the first comparative study of the architecture of the countries that defined the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from 1867 to 1918. The book also explores problems faced by artists and architects of the time as they pushed the limits of their freedom. 325 illustrations.
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Add this copy of Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social to cart. $116.00, very good condition, Sold by Expatriate Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Svendborg, DENMARK, published 1998 by MIT Press.
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16pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. 28x19cm, xv, 508, (16)pp. "Competing Visions is grounded in first-hand knowledge of the architectural cultures of Central Europe, and it is supported by enviable linguistic skills that give the author access to the mail texts in the principal languages of the region. To these qualities he adds an analytical subtlety which reflects both his architectural education in Budapest, Vienna and Munich, and more recent sojourns at the Getty Center, MIT and the ETH Zürich. His hero is an architect who reconciled on the drawing board the competing claims of the local and the universal, of classicism and modernity. Joze Plecnik trained with Otto Wagner in Vienna, and built his greatest works in Prague and Ljubljana. Moravánsky's paean to Plecnik's Church of the Sacred Heart in Prague might well be applied to his own book: `It evokes the entire history of architecture, from the archaic oriental masonry structures up to the metropolitan vertigo of the bell tower's interior. Unlike the historicist assemblage, however, it does not use quotation but freely tells its tale, a richly woven epic that unwinds in space. "-Iain Boyd Whyte in 'The Times Literary Supplement', October 2, 1998.
Add this copy of Competing Visions: Aesthetic Invention and Social to cart. $186.00, very good condition, Sold by Expatriate Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Svendborg, DENMARK, published 1998 by MIT Press.
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16pp plates. Minor rubbing. VG. A small tear to dustwrapper. 28x20cm, xv, 508, (16)pp. "The Habsburg monarchy and its successor states played a significant role in the development of modern culture. Although scholars have recognized the contributions of Viennese intellectuals, they have all but ignored those of other centres such as Budapest, Prague, Brno, Cracow, Zagreb, and Ljubljana. Historical research in Central Europe still emphasizes national and regional differences rather than common issues and developments. In this book Akos Moravanszky presents the first comparative study of the architecture of the countries that defined the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from 1867 to 1918. He discusses the aesthetic innovations of Central European architects by analyzing key buildings and by studying the debates about modernity, national identity, tectonic form, and the social role of the architect. As a reflection of this complexity, the issue-centred chapters explore architectural history in clusters, rather than through a linear development toward a monolithic modern form. Central European intellectuals recognized that real change cannot be introduced merely by changing the political and economic system; human consciousness itself must be transformed. Artists and architects played a leading role in this transformation as they explored the limits of their freedom. Although their social environment contained many feudal elements, their cultural heritage offered more artistic freedom than did other historical regions of Europe..., . "-Publisher's description.
