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Article: Austrian idiosyncrasy.(When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933 )(Book review)
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- The Architectural Review
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- August 1, 2007
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WHEN BUILDINGS SPEAK: ARCHITECTURE AS LANGUAGE IN THE HABSBURG EMPIRE AND ITS AFTERMATH, 1867-1933
By Anthony Alofsin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2006. $65
When architects think about Austria it will be Vienna in the days of Wagner, the Sezession and Loos that spring to mind, that remnant imperial city torn between waltzes and Volk, schlag and spies, and latterly home to the magical expressionism of Hollein (hugely underestimated), the psychodiagrams of Himmelblau (now part of the academic establishment there) or the cool neo-functionalism of Hermann Czech. Vienna, a city planned on a grand scale in the nineteenth century, was but part of the ...