Architects and their Societies

Cultural Study on the Habsburg-Slavic Area (1861-1938)

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The idea of looking at the architects operating within the cultural framework of the Habsburg Empire, embedded in this book, stems from our previous research. It has its roots in the research on Slavic peripheral narratives, conducted by the Research Group on the Slavic Cultures in the Habsburg Monarchy (http://uwhabsburgstudies.uw.edu.pl/), which has operated since 2011 at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies of the University of Warsaw. We studied the issue of peripheral attitudes towards both national narratives, created after 1861 by the Slovak, Czech and Croatian elites, and the imperial project imposed by Vienna and Budapest. Faithful to the microlevel approach, we looked at figures, spaces and social phenomena that do not fit into the stereotypical view of national historiography (Anna Kobylińska, Maciej Falski).


The value of the book is in shedding light on quite many underrated or allegedly well-known persons, places, and buildings within a clear and persuasive theoretical framework. Original in its comparative perspective, as well as in its chronology (trespassing the demise of the Empire usually seen as a clear-cut caesura), the volume offers well-grounded hints in the interpretation of architecture. Written by specialists who convincingly provide synthetic information, it can be recommended to a wider audience interested in cultural phenomena. Going beyond disciplinary boundaries, the chapters sharpen the eyes of the reader and provide guidance in reading the specificity of places. Well-known monuments seem more complex and appealing. Provincial towns appear not as belated environments but receptacles of forgotten layers of modernity (Prof. Daniel Baric, Sorbonne Université, Paris).


Rok wydania2021
Liczba stron250
KategoriaPublikacje darmowe
WydawcaUniwersytet Warszawski
ISBN-13978-83-235-4991-8
Numer wydania1
Język publikacjiangielski
Informacja o sprzedawcyePWN sp. z o.o.

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  Anna Kobylińska, Maciej Falski
  Seismographs of culture. Prolegomena    9
  
  Dragan Damjanović
  Gothic Revival at the borders of Catholic Christianity: State politics, patrons and architects in 19th-century Croatian architecture    37
  
  Anna Kobylińska
  Architects from the periphery: Ján Nepomuk Bobula and Blažej Félix Bulla. Genealogy of localness    75
  
  Dominika Kaniecka
  Zagreb after the 1880 earthquake – The revived city and its architect    103
  
  Maciej Falski
  Architects of a provincial town    119
  
  Jasenka Kranjčević
  Tourism architecture by Czech architects on the Croatian Adriatic coast during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy    139
  
  Michał Burdziński
  Poets who moved the air: Stanisław Witkiewicz – Dušan Samuel Jurkovič    153
  
  Aleksander Łupienko
  Architects in Galicia and the city. The question of history and modernity before World War I    179
  
  Magdalena Bystrzak
  Languages of interwar progressivism: Friedrich Weinwurm in Bratislava    193
  
  Danuta Sosnowska
  Beyond the limits – eccentric H.    211
  
  Index of people    237
  
  Index of places    244
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