Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918-1939

＂Offers a novel interpretation of interwar architectural culture in central Europe, focusing on Catholic modernism in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Examines how Catholic architecture developed in response to the challenges of modernity＂--

Matthew Rampley is Professor of Art History at Masaryk University. He is the author or coeditor of numerous books, including The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847-1918, The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience, and The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, all published by Penn State University Press.