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Ancient Architecture

ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE

Baroque Architecture

BAROQUE ARCHITECTURE

Castles

CASTLES

France

FRANCE

Interior

INTERIOR

Islamic Architecture

ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE

Louvre

LOUVRE

Medieval Architecture

MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

Modern Architecture

MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Palladio,Andrea

PALLADIO,ANDREA

Prehistoric Architecture

PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE

Renaissance Architecture

RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE

Schinkel,Karl Friedrich

SCHINKEL,KARL FRIEDRICH

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Sketch for the entrance to the Vienna "Kunstschau", an art exhibit in 1908.
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Sketch for the entrance to the Vienna "Kunstschau", an art exhibit in 1908.

Building of the Secession Art Movement, 1897-1898 In 1897, a group of Austrian artists, among them Gustav Klimt, Josef Hoffmann and Carl Moll, broke away from the stolid "Kuenstlerhaus" and founded the Secession Art Movement, with its own exhibition building.
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Building of the Secession Art Movement, 1897-1898 In 1897, a group of Aust...

Main entrance of a private home in Hinterbruehl near Vienna, designed by Joseph Olbrich.
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Main entrance of a private home in Hinterbruehl near Vienna, designed by...

"Loos-Haus",built by Adolf Loos for the company of Goldmann & Salatsch,gentlemen's tailors,was Vienna's first uncompromisingly modern building.It caused a scandal as the "house without eyebrows". 1910-1912.
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"Loos-Haus",built by Adolf Loos for the company of Goldmann & Salatsch,gent...

Karl Marx Hof, the largest and most important apartment block built by the Social-democratic city administration of Vienna as low-rent workers'housing 1926-1930. It contains 1.325 apartments and is over 1 km long.
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Karl Marx Hof, the largest and most important apartment block built by...

The pyramid in the Cour Napoleon of the Louvre was built as a reception centre for visitors to the Louvre Museum. H: 21,6 m, 675 glass panes.
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The pyramid in the Cour Napoleon of the Louvre was built as a reception...

Cour de Marly, the new sculpture yard in the Richelieu-wing of the Louvre Museum.
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Cour de Marly, the new sculpture yard in the Richelieu-wing of the Lo...

Notre Dame du Haut, pilgrimage church, Ronchamp, 1955 Le Corbusier wrote to the bishop of Besancon:"I wished to create a place of silence, of prayer, of peace and intimate joy..."
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Notre Dame du Haut, pilgrimage church, Ronchamp, 1955 Le Corbusier wrote to th...

"Barckenhoff",painter Heinrich Vogeler's house in Worpswede,Lower Saxony. Members of the artists' colony Worpswede (1897) were Otto Modersohn,his wife Paula Modersohn-Becker,Heinrich Vogeler,Fritz Mackensen Bernhard Hoetger,Richard Oelze and poet Rainer M.Rilke.
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"Barckenhoff",painter Heinrich Vogeler's house in Worpswede,Lower Saxon...

Painter Bernhard Hoetger's house in Worpswede,Lower Saxony,1920. Members of the artists' colony Worpswede (1897) were Otto Modersohn,his wife Paula Modersohn- Becker,Heinrich Vogeler,Fritz Mackensen,Bernhard Hoetger,Richard Oelze and (briefly)poet Rainer M.Rilke.
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Painter Bernhard Hoetger's house in Worpswede,Lower Saxony,1920. Members of...

Paula Modersohn-Becker house and museum,Boettcher- strasse, 1926-1927. This unique street,connecting the Bremen market square and the river Weser, was financed by coffee magnate Ludwig Roselius and built 1923-1933.
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Paula Modersohn-Becker house and museum,Boettcher- strasse, 1926-1927. This...

"Chilehaus" office building in Hamburg,Germany, 1920-1923.
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"Chilehaus" office building in Hamburg,Germany, 1920-1923.