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Stoclet House
In 1905, banker and art collector Adolf Stockleter commissioned Josef Hoffmann, one of the leading architects of the Vienna Secession movement, to design the house, who imposed neither aesthetic nor financial constraints on the project. Completed in 1911, the house and gardens, with their austere geometric forms, marked a turning point in Art Nouveau and foreshadowed the Art Deco and Modern architectural movements. One of the most successful and homogeneous buildings of the Vienna Secession, the Stocleter House featured works by Koloman Moser and Gustav Klimt, and embodied the desire to create a "total work of art" (Gesamtkunstwerk). A testimony to the renaissance of European architectural art, the house retains most of its original fixtures and furnishings, and maintains a high degree of integrity both externally and internally.
Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans
The Residence of the Metropolitan of Bukovinia and Dalmatia represents an ingenious architectural style built between 1864 and 1882 by the Czech architect Josef Hlavka. An outstanding example of 19th century historicist architecture, the complex also includes a seminary and monastery, and features a dome, a cross-shaped seminary church, gardens and parks. The complex embodies architectural and cultural influences from the Byzantine period, reflects the strong influence of Eastern Orthodoxy during the reign of the Habsburgs, and reflects the policy of religious tolerance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.