Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937Eve Blau, Monika Platzer The explosion of architectural ideas during the last decades of the Hapsburg Empire and in the first adventurous years of the new republics of Central Europe that followed it is the subject of this stimulating and wide-ranging study. |
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Shaping the Great City: Modern Architecture in Central Europe, 1890-1937 Eve Blau,Monika Platzer No preview available - 1999 |
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