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New book from our project!
Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 by Matthew Rampley is out now with Penn State University Press.

New book: Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 Matthew Rampley’s new book Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 has been published by Penn State University Press. Some of the m…

New book from the CRAACE project! Congratulations to Julia Secklehner, whose monograph Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis has just been published by Routledge.

New book: Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis • CRAACE Julia Secklehner's new book, Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis, has just been published by Routledge.

New article by Christian Drobe in the journal Austrian Studies! The article compares travel writing on Japan in the 1920s by two women from the former Habsburg Empire: Alma Karlin and Alice Schalek.

New Article by Christian Drobe on Travel Writing by Central European Women An article by Christian Drobe, 'Alma Karlin and Alice Schalek Look East: Travel Writing by Central European Women in the Interwar Period,' has been published in Austrian Studies.

In December our Artwork of the Month is the Bílá labuť (White Swan) department store in Prague, designed by Josef Kittrich and Josef Hrubý. Matthew Rampley discusses the building as an example of a new type of building shaped by the relationship between modernist architecture and the consumer economy.

The Bílá Labuť Department Store, Prague by Josef Kittrich and Josef Hrubý (1939) The Bílá labuť (White Swan) department store on Na Pořící Street in Prague is celebrated as a significant example of interwar modernist architecture in Czechoslovakia.

In September 1923, our Artwork of the Month is a design for a single-family house known as the Red Cube by the Hungarian modernist architect Farkas Molnár. Starting from this design, Christian Drobe explores the role of the human figure in Farkas's art.

Artwork of the Month, September 2023: The Red Cube by Farkas Molnár (1923) Starting from Red Cube, a design by Hungarian architect Farkas Molnár, the article discusses the depiction of human figures in Bauhaus design