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81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn

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The Importance of Empire in the 20th Century

There's a sense that like this was an unbelievably contradictory and strange society but what's interesting about Wagner's is how he holds it together. When you look at it in these things it feels like it's from a comic book or a computer game i was rereading some mobius comics and it really feels like that like sci-fi he's got like you know ankles like Sci-fi but withlike a bit of like french 18th century in it. There's the kind of mixing of technology and like imperial pomposity it's very strange um he holds it apart.

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