Shaping the Great City

This exhibition focuses for the first time on the explosion of architectural ideas in the years around the First World War. This was a period when architects looked for ways to express a newfound sense of urbanity and modernity. Centring on the Habsburg Empire of Central Europe from 1890 to 1937, this exhibition takes visitors through galleries organised on the model of bustling streets and busy public places, in which projections of slides and early films mingle with architectural drawings and models, photographs, posters and books.