Ringstrasse with Parliament and Burgtheater, 1940
“The capitol buildings of the nineteenth century certainly ought to reveal what the century considered beautiful. A painting might reflect no more than the private fancies of a single artist, a country house no more than the eccentricities of the landowner who commissioned it. But a city in its public buildings necessarily reflects the aesthetic values of the regime.” — Charles Olsen, The City as a Work of Art
