historicism Archives - Architektúra & Urbanizmus

The Historicist Architecture of the Grand Boulevard in Budapest and Its Urbanistic Significance

Issue: 2024, Volume 58, Number 3-4

The legacy of Hungarian historicist architecture has only attracted the attention of researchers in the past few decades. Although the Renaissance and Baroque Revival were the dominant architectural styles of the Habsburg era, historicism was long seen as an architecture copying the past using cheaper materials. Characterized by the reinterpretation of historical styles with contemporary […]

The Work of Karel Boublík

Issue: 2021, Volume 55, No. 1 - 2

The article presents the first detailed examination of the life and work of Karel Boublík (1869 – 1925), a Lviv architect of Czech origin, who from 1897 to 1914 designed many residential buildings in the city. Boublík also headed the Czech Conversation Club (Česká beseda) in Lviv – the oldest Czech association in the world […]

Imre Steindl’s Neo-Gothic Approach in the Hungarian Design Competitions of the 1870st

Issue: 2016, Volume 50, No. 1 - 2

Introduction The Plan Collection and Archives of the Department of History of Architecture and Monuments at the Budapest Technical University possesses many valuable drawings and photographs, including several documents related to Imre Steindl. The most signi€cant pieces of Steindl’s are the fourteen sheets of the Reichstag proposal plan of 1872, and a folder of original […]