KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL

Text in English y German. 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 Schinkels last major projects, in which he presented his idea l of architecture in brilliant drawings and watercolours, as if in a last will and testament. Both the formal language of neo-Classi cal architecture and the quality of presentation are brought to a level here that can scarcely be surpassed. It is clear how highly Schinkel h...[Read more]