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Karl Friedrich Schinkel correct answers -painter
Prussian
Worked for Enlightened ruler
New museums for education and culture
Outclassic the French, out-picturesque the English
He was a painter, a set designer, and an architect
Worked in the Grecian, the gothic, the romanesque, the renaissance
All STYLES not languages
His paintings displayed:
The evocation of the sublime
Foreground
Demonstrated knowledge
Knew the styles of Piranesi
Natural laws of history
Several years in Italy, then England and Scotland
Individual projects mattered
19th c. architecture correct answers round arch style, lots of choice, styles rather a deeply
embedded language
lots of questions of:
whats the style? how do you choose? what created a style?
Altes Museum correct answers Kerl Friedrich Schinkel
Berlin, Germany
1824-1828
-"shrine to culture"
-situated a cross from Royal palace and majour church: shows importance bc next to church +
state
-doesnt try to compete, its role it to be wall of the platz, holds wall of the major place, perfect
backdrop building
-collonaded front, in antis ( projecting walls protect collonade) embedded, read as a wall not
projecting portico
-courtyards
-lust garden, not paved platz
-trees: make the 4th wall of the public space in summer
-same technique as Campodoglio, job is to hold the wall
-deceptivly and elegantly simple
-wide stairs related to parapet roof: creates a center
-multiple centers
-dome hidden by attic, doesnt compete
-lateral expansion
-carefully calibrated entry sequence, a few moves but extremly dramatic. in what place have you
offically entered? the portifo? under the stairs?
, -other facades: simple, windows/mass of the wall reads the same as columnar screen, proportions
resenate w facade, stately rhtyhm
-elevated gives sense of importance
-important volume at the center to bring in light to interior rooms, courtyard provides light
-rippling stairs: structural piers set within the stairs create "landings" where there arent, changes
rhtyhm
-at landgning: look through the coulmnar screen, wants you to see the oblique views (rendering!
pictureqsue! painter view!)
-like Laugier in exposing structure
-while turning thr stairs, landning has view blocked, can only see oblique view, so only at the top
do you eee straight out
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Schauspielhaus (National Theater) correct answers Schinkel
Berlin, Germany
1819-1821
-centerpiece, object building set in center of platz
-expect to see different language than Altes museum
-projecting portico w/ pediment
-wings provide backdrop for projecting center that grabs attention
-giant order + lower order: taller pilasters w small piers, creates depth, layering (like
Michealangelos Campodoglio and Borrominis S. Carlino
-due teatri: 2 theaters, similar techniques, similar in the way he renders it by making the stage the
building itself
Friderich-Werdersche Kirche correct answers Berlin
K-F Schinkel
-done in gothic style
-tall narrow proportions, 2 tower facade. pointed arch
-elaborate vaulting
-clarity to the whole
-shows expansive range of schinkels work
-pioty, religion, gothic lang
Bauakademie correct answers Berlin, Germany
K-F Schinkel
-made post trip to industrial England + Scotland
-polychromy material: multicolored brick
-looks like a factory
-brick itself provides ornamentation
-arhces, diamond like pattern
-all with load bearing materials
-looks to the future (warehouse, factory) training the future architects of the world
Neue Wache correct answers Berlin, Germany
K-F Schinkel