Following J. Mordaunt Crook’s description-cum-classification of much Victorian architecture as Rogue Gothic, which he sees as “the demotic gothic of the 1860s,” one can see examples of such use of gothic elements, particularly the ogive arch, in many buildings in late nineteenth-century Eastern Europe. The windows on this eclectic building near the Piata (Plaza) Romana and Bucharest University’s Faculty of Economics show Turkish influence, and the tower, similar to that found in Hungarian and other Eastern European churches, contrasts with Art Nouveau mosaics.
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Bibliography
Crook, J. Mordaunt. The Dilemma of Style: Architectural Ideas from the Picturesque to the Post-Modern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
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