When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867-1933

by Anthony Alofsin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $92.47

  Explores the architecture of the late Austro-Hungarian Empire and its successor states. This work shows that several different styles emerged in this milieu during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It contends that each of these styles communicates to us in a manner resembling language and its particular means of expression.