Tag: historicism
The work of Karel Boublík
For the first time, the article examines in detail the life and work of Karel Boublík (1869–1925), a Lviv architect of Czech origin. In the years 1897–1914 he was the author of many residential buildings in Lviv. Boublík also led the Česká beseda in Lviv – the oldest Czech association in the world outside the […]
The Historicist Architecture of the Grand Boulevard in Budapest and Its Urbanistic Significance
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 […]