Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe: A Catalogue of the Drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania - Softcover

Brownlee, David B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812212207 ISBN 13: 9780812212204

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986

Synopsis

Friedrich Weinbrenner was the first internationally important German architect of the nineteenth century. His planning for the city of Karlsruhe—and his design of every imaginable type of structure, including palaces, churches, synagogue, government buildings, city gates, shops, fountains, theaters, armories, cemetery buildings and farms—is a remarkable achievement. This collection includes treatment of Weinbrenner's contributions to agricultural architecture. Based on new rationalist models that were greatly influenced by the scientific movement in the mideighteenth century.

About this title

About the Author:

David B. Brownlee is Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include The Law Courts: The Architecture of George Edmund Street.

Review:

"Superb. . . . The Pennsylvania drawings take us beyond this singular image and reveal the breadth of Weinbrenner's extensive practice."—History and Theory

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0812212207
• ISBN 13: 9780812212204
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 171