Katechismus der Denkmalpflege
Katechismus der Denkmalpflege is a 1918 Vienna conservation manual by art historian Max Dvořák, published by J. Bard, setting out principles for protecting historic monuments in Austria. Its photographs record Central European town squares, lanes and churches before and around restoration, with stone facades, baroque plague columns, Gothic towers and cobbled streets. A designer could draw on their weathered masonry textures, sober monochrome tonality and the plain documentary framing of historic architecture.
