Vienna’s Ringstraße

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A publication celebrating the 150th anniversary of the groundbreaking for Vienna’s Ringstrasse| An unparalleled urban monument: a seminal city landscape shaped by imperial will

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When the old seat of Habsburg power was trans­formed into a modern metropolis, the imperial resi­dence assumed unexpected proportions. Beginning in 1860 Emperor Franz Joseph I moved all of the ma­jor political and cultural buildings of the city-from the opera and the theater to the parliament, city hall, university, and even the Kaiserforum-to the area where the old city defenses had once formed a ring around Vienna. The world’s largest construction site at the time, the famous Ringstrasse later became a place where the prosperous middle class established a site for their own building projects, which rivaled those of the court and nobility. This volume brings the “society of the Ringstrasse” to life; it tells the sto­ry of the architects and artists involved in this fasci­nating ensemble and of everyday life behind the façades. Contemporary photographs capture the wealth of this architectural legacy and are shown alongside previously unpublished historical photo­graphs. (German editionISBN 978-3-7757-3772-2)

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Weight 2305 g
Dimensions 30.2 x 32.6 cm
Publisher name Hatje Cantz Verlag
Publication date 1 November 2014
Number of pages
Format Hardback
Contributors Edited by Alfred Fogarassy, Text by Monika Faber, Jochen Martz, Siegfried Mattl, Frederic Morton, Andreas Nierhaus, and Eva-Maria Orosz
Dimensions 30.2 x 32.6 cm
Weight 2305 g

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