What is it about?

The chapter is about architecture of design museums in Austria-Hungary

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Why is it important?

The chapter critically re-evaluates the Semperian tradition through analysis of museum architecture, paying particular attention to how design museums served as architectural models for each other.

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The chapter argues that in order to understand the meaning and connotations of museum architecture for its contemporaries, their history need to be disconnected from such modernist critique.

Dr Markian Prokopovych
Durham University

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This page is a summary of: Semperian Trajectories, January 2020, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781003003625-4.
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