Luigi De Marchi, Author at CulturalHeritageOnline - CHO

Hungarian Geological Institute (Földtani Intézet), Budapest

Lechner wanted a national style for a young nation. He found it, of all places, in a building for geologists.

Spring water has been drawn here since the Middle Ages. The Secession gave it a palace.

Liszt founded the school in 1875. A generation later it got the building it deserved.

Before the spires and the broken tile of his late work, Gaudí began here, with a summer house dressed in ceramic flowers.

A town palace built to impress, where a coffered ceiling is pierced with holes so lamplight could fake a night sky.

A family name hidden in plain sight: wherever you look, the mulberry tree of the Moreras has been carved into the house.

Three houses for three sisters, fused into one building that looks like a castle dropped into the Eixample.

A young professor put the first Secession facade on Wenceslas Square. The critics did not thank him for it.

A tailor’s shop that grew into a palace — with an arcade, a cabaret, and a theatre of its own.

A publisher who backed the new art put it on his own front wall.