Friedrich Weinbrenner Architect Of Karlsruhe

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.

First published in 1997. For this second edition of Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists, the vast number of new books published since 1985 was surveyed and evaluated. This has resulted in the selection of 3,395 additional titles. These selections, reflective of the increase in the monographic literature on artists during the last ten years, are evidence of the activities of a larger number of art historians in more countries worldwide, of the increasingly diverse and ambitious exhibition programs of museums whose number has also increased dramatically, and also of a lively international art market and the attendant gallery activities. The selections of the first edition have been reviewed, errors have been corrected and important new editions and reprints have been noted. The second edition contains 278 names of artists not represented in the first edition.

Modern Architectural Theory is the first book to provide a comprehensive survey of architectural theory, primarily in Europe and the United States, during three centuries of development. In this synthetic overview, Harry Mallgrave examines architectural discourse within its social and political context. He explores the philosophical and conceptual evolution of its ideas, discusses the relation of theory to the practice of building, and, most importantly, considers the words of the architects themselves, as they contentiously shaped Western architecture. He also examines the compelling currents of French rationalist and British empiricist thought, radical reformation of the theory during the Enlightenment, the intellectual ambitions and historicist debates of the nineteenth century, and the distinctive varieties of modern theory in the twentieth century up to the profound social upheaval of the 1960s. Modern Architectural Theory challenges many assumptions about architectural modernism and uncovers many new dimensions of the debates about modernism.

Friedrich Weinbrenner and Heinrich Hubsch made Karlsruhe into a centre of European architecture even in the early nineteenth century. The Karlsruhe School still has an outstanding reputation today, deriving not least from Egon Eiermann's educational influence after the Second World War.Like his teacher Eiermann in his day, Heinz Mohl has for several decades been one of the most prominent architects in the German-speaking countries. Whether he is working on green field sites or in historically demanding contexts, Mohl's buildings always show a typological stringence and formal rigour that are rare even by international standards. Mohl's CEuvre is as richly faceted as it is noteworthy in terms of architectural theory, and his recherche typologique can be named in the same breath as the intellectual approach taken by architects like Oswald Mathias Ungers, Karljosef Schattner or Josef Paul Kleihues. A thorough and critical appreciation of Mohl is thus long overdue.This survey of the work anddevelopment of the Karlsruhe architect and academy teacher is intended to fill this gap with a wealth of material, some of it familiar, but a great deal that is largely unknown. Beyond this it is intended as an impressive demonstration of the outstanding significance of Mohl's architectural theory and practice precisely in times of ever more rapidly changing fashions and isms, as it vividly reflects the way in which a vigorous master builder is addressing the gradual disappearance of high-quality architectural creation from our everyday life.Frank R. Werner held the chair of building history and architectural theory at the Kunstakademie in Stuttgart from 1990 to 1993, since 1993he has been Director of the Institut fur Architekturgeschichte und Architekturtheorie at the Bergische

An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins by Kenneth Frampton. Kenneth Frampton’s highly acclaimed survey of modern architecture and its origins has been a classic since it first appeared in 1980. Starting with the cultural developments since 1750 that drove the modern movement, moving through the creation of modern architecture, and exploring the effects of globalization and the phenomenon of international celebrity architects, this book is the definitive history of modern architecture. For this extensively revised and updated fifth edition of Modern Architecture, Frampton added new chapters exploring the ongoing modernist tradition in architecture while also examining the varied responses to the urgent need to build more sustainably and create structures that will withstand changing climates. This new edition features completely redesigned interiors and an updated and expanded bibliography, making this volume more indispensable than ever.

As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.