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Otto Wagner

1841–1918 · Austrian architect and urban designer · Austria

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Helped move Viennese architecture toward modernity through rational planning and new materials.

Key works

  • Majolica House
  • Vienna urban works

THE RETHINK

Otto Wagner helps us rethink architecture as more than the production of buildings: their work shows how decisions about structure, space, materials, context or public life can change what a society considers possible.

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