!!!Sitte, Camillo

Sitte, Camillo, b. Vienna, April 17, 1843, d. Vienna, Nov. 
16, 1903, architect and urban planner; son of the architect Franz S. 
(1808-1879), father of Siegfried  Sitte. Student of H. von  Ferstel; 
1875-1883 head of the state trade school in Salzburg, from 1883 at the 
state trade school in Vienna. Dedicated much of his time to various 
individual buildings (e.g. Mechitarist Church in Vienna, 1874) and 
craftwork and especially to problems related to urban planning; 1889 
published "Urban planning according to artistic principles", 
considered a standard work and found world-wide distribution. S. 
supported contemporary nationalist concepts on the one hand, but 
emphasized the relevance of social conditions on the other; he 
compared the abstract modular system with the artistically varied mode 
of design, which he demonstrated on medieval and baroque objects. 
Co-founder of the magazine ´Urban Planning´.

!Literature
G. R. Collins and C. Crasemann Collins, C. S. 
and the Birth of Modern City Planning, 1965; R. Wurzer, C. S.- 
Lebenslauf und Werk, in: Berichte zur Raumforschung und Raumplanung, 
1968; D. Wieczorek, C. S. et les debuts de l´urbanisme 
moderne, 1981; M. Moenninger, Vom Ornament zum Nationalkunstwerk. 
Zur Kunst- und Architekturtheorie C. S.,1998.


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