richard.kurdiovsky(at)oeaw.ac.at
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Richard Kurdiovsky is a research associate in the Art History Research Unit and served as its interim head from December 2023 to the end of March 2025.
Studied History of Art, History, Classical Archaeology, and Slavonic Studies in Vienna, freelancer for the Architecture Collection at the Albertina Museum in Vienna (1997–2004), researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2005, received his doctorate on Carl Hasenauer and Gottfried Semper in 2005. Has taught inter alia at the University of Vienna. Research foci: the Vienna Hofburg in the nineteenth century, Central European architecture from the Baroque to the twentieth century, urban culture in the Habsburg Empire.
Period: the late eighteenth to the first half of the twentieth century
Area: Central Europe
Topics: the architectural history of Central Europe during the long nineteenth century, urban culture in the Habsburg Empire
Vienna's building regulations in the context of the rivalry between Vienna and Berlin
Architekturen der Gesundheit (completed)
Pietro Nobile (completed)
The State as Builder (completed)
Vienna Hofburg 3D Repository (completed)
Die Wiener Hofburg 1835–1918 (completed)
Architekt:innen-Monographien. Kanonisierung, Kontextualisierung, Kritik (RIHA Journal Special Issue 17)
Das Regionale konstruieren (Veröffentlichungen zur Kunstgeschichte 23)
The Governance of Style: Public Buildings in Central Europe, 1780–1920
