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About the book >.>.> The explosion of new architectural Ideas witnessed across the Habsburg Empire in its last decades and in the first adventur- ous years of the new republics of Central Europe that succeeded it is the subject of this stimulating and wide-ranging new study. A cultural battleground of compet- ing linguistic ethnic religious and nation- al traditions and aspirations the region was nevertheless host to a persistent cos- mopolitan ideal. This book and the exhibi- tion it accompanies look at the city as both the principal site of innovation and experimentation in the period and the generator of a vibrant urban culture. The idea and fabric of the modern city- its form its texture and its architecture- served as the visible manifestation of sometimes contradictory efforts to give expression to a new sense of modernity of a national past of links to a distinct community or of aspirations toward a supranational culture. This book addresses the astonishing range of architectural searching and experiment that took place in Vienna Budapest and Prague as well as in other cities such as L’viv Krak?w Zagreb. and Ljubljana. Reviewing the urban archi- tectural ideas of Otto Wagner Camillo Sitte Adolf Loos Maks Fabiani Jo?e Plecnik Farkas Moln?r and Pavel Jan?k and drawing new attention to lesser- known twentieth-century modernists such as ?d?n Lechner B?la Lajta Istv?n Medgyaszay Virgil Bierbauer in Hungary: Josef Gocar Jan Gillar Jaromir Krejcar in the Czech lands; Viktor Kovacic Josip Picman Slavko L?wy Zlatko Neumann Ernest Weissmann in Zagreb: Margarete Sch?tte-Lihotzky Hubert Gessner Karl Ehn. Rudolf Perco Friedi Dicker Franz Singer and Carl K?nig in Vienna; Ivan Levyns’kyj. Roman Felinski and Karel Teige in L’viv: and Stanislaw Wyspianski in Krakow the book attempts to recognize the distinctive character composition and cultural dynamics of place and the importance of the city as the principal arena of public culture in the multinational empire and its successor states. (OS)