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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Sally Rooney
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Hardcover. Karl Friedrich Schinkel called his designs for a palace on the Acropolis in Athens and for Orianda Castle in the Crimea a 'beautiful dream'. This work presents both the formal language of neo-Classical architecture and the quality of presentation. It shows how he esteemed these designs from the fact that he had them printed in his publication. Num Pages: 244 pages, lithographs. BIC Classification: AMB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 316 x 248 x 44. Weight in Grams: 2362.
Text in English and German. 2 Books in slipcase. 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 ... Read more
Text in English and German. 2 Books in slipcase. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783930698110
SKU
V9783930698110
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About Sally Rooney
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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