Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Texts and Documents Series)

Author: Gilly, Friedrich

Brand: Oxford University Press, USA

Features:

• Used Book in Good Condition

Number Of Pages: 240

EAN: 9780892362806

Release Date: 13-09-1994

Package Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

Binding: hardcover

Part Number: 74 halftones

Details: When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at age twenty-eight, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete. Nevertheless, his ideas so strongly influenced Berlin architecture of the next century that he is now widely regarded as the founder of Berlin's distinct architectural tradition.

By uniting Rationalist and Neoclassicist principles, his designs achieve an artistic expression that is at once visually dramatic and formally pure. Today, his theories are known primarily through the work of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, his student who became one of Berlin's primary modern architects.

In addition to presenting five of Gilly's most influential essays, this volume contains previously unpublished archival records that clarify the intellectual context in which Gilly developed his thoughts on architecture. A catalog of Gilly’s personal library is especially illuminating.