ARCH250_VideoQuestions_THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK in Vienna - REVISED
Module
ARCH 250
Institution
ARCH 250
Keywords:
● The Post Office Savings Bank
● Otto Wagner
● Modern Architecture
● Machinery of the city
● “Modern Architecture”
● Viennese Avant-Garde
● Iron studs
Questions:
1. Who was the architect of the
headquarters of the Royal and Imperial
Post Office Savings Bank in...
● The Post Office Savings Bank
● Otto Wagner
● Modern Architecture
● Machinery of the city
● “Modern Architecture”
● Viennese Avant-Garde
● Iron studs
Questions:
1. Who was the architect of the 7. Was he able to test out his new
headquarters of the Royal and Imperial theories in this building?
Post Office Savings Bank in Vienna? Yes; the Savings Bank was his first
The headquarters of the Royal and construction where he tested out his
Imperial Post Office Savings Bank in new theories.
Vienna was built by Otto Wagner. 8. What is the shape of the lot?
2. When was the Office Savings Bank in A trapezium.
Vienna built? 9. Describe the bank’s design and
The Savings Bank was built between construction.
1903-1906 The bank was built in 2 stages; the first
3. How was Wagner known in the society? in 1904, and the second in 1910. At the
He was a well-established architect, time, the bank’s construction was
and was respected by the upper class considered incredibly fast.
of society. 10. What did he do to speed up the
4. What were his previous works? What construction?
was the style of those structures? Wagner had built brick walls, then
Wagner had built a large number of dressed the walls with inch-thick slabs
Renaissance style buildings; he of marble and granite.
designed buildings for the Emperor 11. What is the importance of the building?
Franz Joseph. The bank was the first building in which
5. What is the great paradox regarding Wagner’s new technique was used; it
Otto Wagner? saved time and money for future
That in his theory and in his building, buildings.
he remains the most innovative and 12. What was Wagner’s secret technique
influential architect in Central Europe. for Monumental Appearance?
6. What is the relationship between the He would build a brick wall and then put
rest of the building and the Savings granite and stone on the outside.
bank? 13. Did Wagner follow the statement
The Savings Bank is the only modern “buildings should be frank and show its
building. structure and material” in his design?
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