Schinkel ‘in Athens’: Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning
Archaeopress Archaeology (Verlag)
978-1-80327-068-5 (ISBN)
Schinkel ‘in Athens’: Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning proposes a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s urban design legacy and his involvement in the design of modern Athens in the 1830s. From the 1830s onwards, the incompatibility between Schinkel’s position as a civil servant and his vocation as a scholar inspired by Fichte led him along a transcendental path of life. Transcendentalism set its own terms and conditions under which Schinkel’s project of a palace atop the Acropolis of Athens (1834) might be understood. The ‘contextual analysis’ of Schinkel’s work in this book challenges the view of this proposal as a utopian scheme, detached from the realities of nineteenth-century Greece. On the other hand, the first plan of Athens, supposedly the work of two of his former Bauakademie students, ratified a year earlier, in 1833, proposed the location of the royal residence in the new town at a few hundred metres north of the Acropolis. But, though the two options for Otto’s palace were topographically dissimilar they did retain a common strong, topological significance – which, along with other factors analysed in this book, provides ample evidence for re-thinking the authorship of the new plan of the capital city of Greece. Schinkel ‘in Athens’, by all means!
Dimitris N. Karidis is an architect and urban historian, Professor Emeritus of National Technical University of Athens.
Preface ;
On the Narrative and the Meta-narrative ;
On the nature of ‘Biography’ ;
Karl Friedrich Schinkel ;
George Christian Gropius ;
Eduard Schaubert, Stamatios Kleanthes and ‘their’ plan of Athens ;
Introduction (A) ;
Back to Euclide’s Elements of Geometry ;
The north-south and east-west axes anchoring the plan ;
The over-estimated Propylaia and the under-estimated Library of Hadrian in reading the 1833 plan ;
A new plan or an extension plan for the old town? ;
An Urban Interlude on 17th-19th c. European Extension Plans ;
Introduction (B) ;
The Roman paradigm ;
Eclectic relations between the Athens plan and Schinkel’s architecture and urban
design (1) ;
Eclectic relations between the Athens plan and Schinkel’s architecture and urban
design (2) ;
Act One (in Two Scenes) ;
Close encounters in Athens, Rome and Berlin ;
Act Two (in Two Scenes) ;
The meta-narrative approach to the authorship of the 1833 new Athens plan ;
Act Three (in Four Scenes) ;
Urban design in and outside Berlin – philosophical views on social priorities ;
Act Four (in Six Scenes) ;
Transcendental life ;
Epilogue ;
Bibliography ;
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.05.2022 |
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Zusatzinfo | 84 black & white figures |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 174 x 245 mm |
Gewicht | 768 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
Technik ► Architektur | |
ISBN-10 | 1-80327-068-3 / 1803270683 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-80327-068-5 / 9781803270685 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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