Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799
J. Paul Getty Trust Publications, July 1996. Oversize Softcover. Used - Good. Item #273845
ISBN: 0892362812
The first English translation of Gilly's essays demonstrates his influence on Berlin architects, justifying his standing as the founder of the Berlin architectural tradition.
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In addition to presenting five of Gilly's most influential essays, this volume contains previously unpublished archival records that clarify the intellectual context in which Gilly developed his thoughts on architecture.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. Minor shelfwear. Some waviness to pages, perhaps from moisture but not stained and otherwise in very good condition.
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