Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Späte Projekte / Late Projects Bd. 1 u. 2 - Hardcover

Klaus Jan Philipp

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3930698110 ISBN 13: 9783930698110

Verlag: Edition Axel Menges, 2000

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Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda Castle in the Crimea a "beautiful dream". They date from 1834 and 1838 and were Schinkel's last major projects, in which he presented his ideal of architecture in brilliant drawings and watercolours, as if in a last will and testament. Both the formal language of neo-Classical architecture and the quality of presentation are brought to a level here that can scarcely be surpassed. It is clear how highly Schinkel himself esteemed these two unrealized designs from the fact that he had them printed as coloured lithographs in his publication Werke der hoeheren Baukunst für die Ausfuehrung erfunden (Potsdam 1840-42). These lithographs are reprinted in a large format for the first time here, complemented by the no less spectacular lithographs of the two Pliny villas, Tusculum and Laurentinum. These works, which represent a high point in the long story of the reconstruction of t he two villas that have come down to us only in literature, also show Schinkel"s impressive ability to demonstrate and convey his architectural ideas. He is profoundly concerned, both in the reconstructions of the Pliny villas and in the designs for the royal palace on the Acropolis and Orianda Castle to be archaeologically precise and to fulfil prescribed building programmes, but also to plumb the possibilities of architecture beyond mere utility. For the Acropolis palace project he had his eye mainly on the way in which the new building would interact with the surviving remains of the Propylaea and the Parthenon. In the Orianda project it is a glazed observation pavilion in the form of a temple that expresses architecture's perception of itself more clearly than perhaps ever before.

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Klaus Jan Philipp studied art history, archaeology and history in Marburg and Berlin. From 1988 to 1990 he worked as a free-lance at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main. Philipp is professor of architectural history at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. He presented his research on neo-Classical architecture in 1997.

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• Verlag: Edition Axel Menges
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3930698110
• ISBN 13: 9783930698110
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 243
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