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- fin-de-siècle vienna
bretagne tracery
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- this poster, compiled in a 2-weeks bretagne trip, shows the fantastic diversity of late medieval and early modern tracery design in a small region at the western edge of europe.
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ca. 1910 doorways of vienna
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- the lavish doorways are undoubtedly one of the most impressive features of viennese fin-de-siècle apartment buildings—their magnificence is unparalleled in nearly any other european city. beginning in the 1860s and 1870s, a tradition emerged to establish these entry spaces as a second architectural focal point alongside the façade. this was likely done to instill a sense of grandeur in residents…
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cairo modernism
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- cairo is famous for the pyramids, early christian churches and medieval mosques. another exciting heritage that is much less appreciated is a fantastic variety of modernist architecture from the 1920s to present. placed next to each other, the manifold styles and ideas but also common design features of the typical residential buildings that shape the face of the city become…
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carceri reinvented
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- inspired by giovanni battista piranesi’s “carceri d’invenzione” (a series of bizarre etchings from ca. 1750), this collage rearranges roman renaissance and baroque buildings to a fantastic mega-architecture. try to find s. agnese in agone, s. andrea al quirinale, s. andrea della valle, s. carlo alle quattro fontane, s. croce in gerusalemme, the fontana del mosè, s. giovanni in laterano, ss.…
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cologne post-war modernism
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- cologne is one of the most heavily destroyed cities in germany in the second world war. during the reconstruction it was decided to keep the old plot structures but to build modern houses on them. people often complain that the historic cityscape has been destroyed and replaced with soulless modernist architecture. however, they do not see they that the new…
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corvialismo
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- more than a kilometer in length, the corviale stretches at the western edge of rome as a monument of the utopian thinking of an era of social and technological optimism. built in the 1970s, it was intended to be the ultimate solution to social and urbanist problems: a megastructure, accommodating community areas, shops, a school and many more facilites–and even…
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eastern slovak town houses
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- an impressive number of historic town houses have been preserved in the cities and villages of eastern slovakia. many of them show beautiful facades designed in the 18th and 19th century or even earlier. this poster, compiled i a two-weeks trip, tries to divide the buildings into historical groups and thus show the development of the designs.
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gothic portals
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- there is an old medieval tradition of designing splendid and complex church portals as they are the thresholds between the secular world outside and the sanctified interior, welcoming many visitors every day. french and french-influenced 13th century cathedrals have some of the greatest portals in architectural history, featuring exuberant sculptural decoration arranged according to sophisticated iconographies. however, this poster focuses on…
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gothic vaults
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- everything begins with the cross ribbed vault: a vault based on a cross-shaped stone framework that facilitates the construction process. this practical form quickly became a leitmotif of gothic architecture, and as early as in the 13th century, architects attempted to vary this form in different ways. in 15th century central europe, the invention of new vault configurations became the…
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historicist doorways of vienna
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- the lavish doorways are undoubtedly one of the most impressive features of viennese fin-de-siècle apartment buildings—their magnificence is unparalleled in nearly any other european city. beginning in the 1860s and 1870s, a tradition emerged to establish these entry spaces as a second architectural focal point alongside the façade. this was likely done to instill a sense of grandeur in residents…
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linz post-war modernist mass housing
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- any people say that the 1960ies and 1970ies residential architecture is ugly. probably they are right. and this is great. look at these ugly monsters, being far too big and sometimes poorly designed, standing around like gigantic machines destroying the nice view of the city. i love them.
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masonry dating in eastern austria
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- you would hardly believe how much masonry can tell if you “read” it carefully. as a member of a team of building researchers, i have learned to date and interpret masonry in recent years and me and my colleague doris schön (to whom i owe my thanks) have taken many photos of masonry probes on historic buildings during our projects.…
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