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Otto Wagner, Postal Savings Bank

A truly modern architecture “What is impractical can never be beautiful.” – Otto Wagner In his 1896 manifesto Modern Architecture, Wagner expressed his ideal of practical and efficiently designed architecture. The purpose of beauty, he argued, was to give artistic expression to function. Extraneous ornament, therefore, was not only impractical and inefficient, it was also …
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