Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2021
Abstract
Max Dvořák (1874-1921), a member of the Vienna school of art history, was probably the first important scholar who was solving a problem of the relation of modern buildings in historical settings. He was confronted with this theme in a time when the wholes of old towns were firstly viewed by preservationists as the historical monuments.
Dvořák agreed with the interventions of modern architecture into these towns, with a condition, however, that a new building was able to create "a higher architectural unity" with a historical setting.