
81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn
About Buildings + Cities
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The Ghost of Vienna
i feel that the point when that lecture was given was the last point when you which is just before the first world war after the first world automobile automobiles are just such an obvious thing i'm on a page in the book that we're looking at but it's a series of proposals for bridges that weren't built and the background of the images is remarkably telling. because he hasn't got caught up in automobile hysteria which will come in like about 10 years after this he feels that the person that who is inhabiting this kind of imaginative passage in the in the essay is very much the person we see in his competition and drawings and proposals more of which we'll discuss on the bonus next week
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