Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799 (Texts & Documents) - Softcover

Gilly, Friedrich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0892362812 ISBN 13: 9780892362813

Publisher: The Getty Center For The History Of Art, 1996

Synopsis

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In addition to presenting five of Gilly's most influential essays, this volume contains previously unpublished archival records that clarify the intellectual context in which Gilly developed his thoughts on architecture.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

About this title

About the Author:

Fritz Neumeyer is Professor of Architectural Theory at the Technical University, Berlin.

Antoine Picon is professor of the history of architecture and engineering at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, and author of French Architects and Engineers in the Age of the Enlightenment. David Britt has translated numerous books, including The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity by Aby
Warburg.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About this edition

• Publisher: The Getty Center For The History Of Art
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0892362812
• ISBN 13: 9780892362813
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240