Vienna: City of Dreams

Harvard FAS

For centuries, Vienna stood as the capital of a vast empire stretching from Switzerland to Ukraine and Poland to Bosnia. Last seat of Europe’s oldest ruling dynasty, this embattled fortress city experienced around 1900 a sudden, unparalleled burst of innovation. Viennese achievements in philosophy, psychology, medicine, biology, economics, jurisprudence, politics, architecture, urban planning, literature, music, and the visual arts were foundational for the modern age. Through…