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10 Oct 13
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theoretical position that enabled him to mitigate the reliance on historical forms
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his path toward a more radical opposition to the prevailing currents of historicist architecture
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new human tasks and views called for a change or reconstitution of existing forms"
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In pursuit of this ideal, he designed and built structures that reflected their intended function, such as the austere Neustiftgasse apartment block in Vienna.
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their intended function
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04 Oct 06
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Otto Koloman Wagner (13 July 1841–11 April 1918) was an Austrian architect.
Wagner was born in Penzing, a suburb of Vienna. He studied in Berlin and Vienna. In 1864, he started designing his first buildings in the historicist style. In 1884, he became a teacher in the school of architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
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