• Baroque’s off: my mission to seek out Vienna’s modernist masterpieces

    Baroque’s off: my mission to seek out Vienna’s modernist masterpieces
    Vienna’s art nouveau movement inspired buildings – from villas to underground stations – that should receive as many plaudits as its imperial palacesThe 20th century was unkind to Vienna. The capital of the Habsburg empire until 1918, it was, by early 1989, a bleak and battered outpost within touching distance of the iron curtain. Now that the city has undeniably recaptured its glory of old (symbolically, its population grew to two million last year, its pre-first world war imp

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