Vienna, Austria’s finest city on the Danube, is famed for its artistic, musical, intellectual, and architecturally rich past and culture, which has an irresistible charm. This historically significant city has…
Most of Vienna’s best secular structures, including the Harach and Kinsky palaces, the Prince Eugene of Savoy winter house, and others, are designed in the Baroque style, which dominated Vienna’s…
Rudolf Leopold was born in Vienna on March 1, 1925. Following WWII, he pursued a career in medicine at Vienna University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1953. In addition…
There is no better way to describe the nature of his designs than eclectic, intricate yet frank, and often thought-provoking. Hollein had a witty charm, expressed satire, and contested the…
Born in Vienna, Austria, circa 1935, Pritzker Prize laureate Hans Hollein was a significant figure of postmodern architecture, to be precise, was an architect, designer, and professor. He graduated from…
In the heart of Vienna, next to the Baroque Karlskirche, stands Vienna’s most famous centre for classical music, the Vienna Musikverein. In 1812, Austrian librettist, Joseph von Sonnleithner, founded the…
Sitting beautifully on eastern banks of the Danube River, Vienna has a treasure of culture and architecture marvels. The capital city of Austria houses the legacy of eminent architects, artists,…
Exhibiting architecture is not an easy exercise but it is an extremely important one. Architectural exhibitions across history have been significant in sharing design, theory and technology with fellow architects,…
Structures are remembered either for their ephemeral architecture or an extraordinary history attached to them. Café Central, Vienna checks both these boxes and how! Opened in 1876 as a traditional…
The Secession Building is designed by Josef Maria Olbrich, a young Austrian architect between 1897 and 1898 as a place for exhibits of modern art. This 1000-square-meter Secession Pavilion is…
Austrian architect and Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Hans Hollien designed multiple projects that greatly influenced the style of Modernist Viennese architecture that we are familiar with today. One of his…
Last summer, I found myself wandering through the massive crowd, amongst the many tourists of the British capital, following the flow of people through the metal piles of the Serpentine…
