World Capital Architect

He broke with the imitation of older styles that was so prevalent around the turn-of-the-century and propagated a new building style that was more appropriate to the time and to modern needs. Combining technical pragmatism with high aesthetic standards, his buildings remain fully functional to this day.

• Urban planner and visionary • Historicism to Modernism • Functional architecture using new materials such as • Arches of the former Stadtbahn railway and Austrian Post Savings Bank