080078 PS Case Study II/III: Vienna and Berlin: Building and Building Types in the Late 19th Century (2021W)

Vienna and Berlin are two prosperous capital and residential cities in the late 19th century. Industrialization, advances in medicine and science, and the accompanying political change lead to enormous growth and a fundamental redesign of the established cities. In Vienna the Ringstrasse was built, in Berlin the Kurfürstendamm, and in both cities numerous buildings had to meet completely new requirements: Parliament buildings, city halls, courts, hospitals, train stations, banks, department stores, hotels, theaters and museums.
In a direct comparison, selected buildings will be examined to see how the two cities respond to new challenges and new building tasks. The aim of the course is to develop a catalog of criteria for the evaluation of architecture in the two empires up to the 1st World War.