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Camillo Sitte

1843 - 1903

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Camillo Sitte (17 April 1843 – 16 November 1903) was an Austrian architect, painter and urban theorist whose work influenced urban planning and land use regulation. Today, Sitte is best remembered for his 1889 book, City Planning According to Artistic Principles, in which he examined and documented the traditional, incremental approach to urbanism in Europe, with a close focus on public spaces in Italy and the Germanic countries. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Camillo Sitte is the 146th most popular architect (down from 129th in 2019), the 368th most popular biography from Austria (down from 324th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Austrian Architect.

Camillo Sitte is most famous for his theory of town planning, which he published in his book "City Planning According to Artistic Principles" in 1866. He was a proponent of the idea that a city should be built with a hierarchy of streets, squares, and buildings, with the cathedral at the center.

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Among architects, Camillo Sitte ranks 146 out of 518. Before him are Paul Abadie, Verner Panton, Antonio Sant'Elia, Ettore Sottsass, Fumihiko Maki, and Ludwig Borchardt. After him are Dinocrates, Jacques-François Blondel, Hans Vredeman de Vries, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Gottfried Böhm, and Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1843, Camillo Sitte ranks 31. Before him are Oscar Montelius, Henryk Siemiradzki, Princess Maria Clotilde of Savoy, Hans Richter, Anton von Werner, and Lydia Koidula. After him are Antonio Labriola, Mikhail Skobelev, David Popper, Frederic W. H. Myers, Adelina Patti, and Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev. Among people deceased in 1903, Camillo Sitte ranks 24. Before him are Draga Mašin, Calamity Jane, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria, Vasily Dokuchaev, Marcel Renault, and Sabino Arana. After him are Richard Jordan Gatling, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, Karl Gegenbaur, Émile Baudot, and Charles Renouvier.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Camillo Sitte ranks 368 out of 1,424. Before him are Otto Hofmann (1896), Zoltán Tildy (1889), Senta Berger (1941), Raoul Hausmann (1886), Ettore Sottsass (1917), and Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia (1204). After him are Paul Badura-Skoda (1927), Joy Adamson (1910), Wolfgang Schüssel (1945), Hermann Bahr (1863), Constanze Manziarly (1920), and Helmuth Koinigg (1948).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Austria

Among architects born in Austria, Camillo Sitte ranks 6. Before him are Otto Wagner (1841), Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928), Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656), Hans Hollein (1934), and Ettore Sottsass (1917). After him are Richard Neutra (1892), Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897), Ferdinand Fellner (1847), Josef Frank (1885), Jakob Prandtauer (1660), and Heinrich von Ferstel (1828).

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