Urban Buildings Near Wild Falls What constitutes the building culture of Bad Gastein? How did
the "Man-hattan of the Alps" arise? BAD GASTEIN: Removed | Rebuilt | Rethought - Urban
Buildings Near Wild Falls tells the extraordinary building history of this town at the
waterfall: The early development in the village of Wild-bad Gastein and the utilization of the
healing springs in wooden bathing huts the age of Romanticism when the first solidly
constructed bathhouses and Classicist villas sprung up the emergence of the railroad the
multi-story Historicist hotel buildings the Modernist concrete structures by Gerhard
Garstenauer blasted into the rock the architectural decay and the current attempts to
revitalize Bad Gastein once again. A photo essay documents the current phase of structural
change in Bad Gastein. Richly illustrated the book offers an overview of the architectural and
cultural history of the town current insights and an outlook into what will hopefully be an
exciting future.
