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4 days ago · The Berlin Bauakademie, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1832–36), is considered one of the forerunners of modern architecture due to its hithertofore relatively streamlined façade of the building. The Crystal Palace (1851) was one of the first buildings to have cast plate glass windows supported by a cast-iron frame.
1 day ago · Together they “time travelled” to monuments, such as Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and the University of Virginia campus. In parallel, Moore taught the historical precedents that inspired him, many of which were then considered passé or academic, like the works of John Soane or Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
3 days ago · The Prussian classicism of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Altes Museum in Berlin (1830) was more different still, as was the stripped classicism of Paul Philippe Cret’s Federal Reserve Board Building (1937).
2 days ago · Karl Friedrich Schinkel built many prominent buildings in this style, including the Altes Museum in Berlin. While the city remained dominated by Baroque city planning, his architecture and functional style provided the city with a distinctly neoclassical center.
4 days ago · Under Morton’s guidance, Rizzoli also published books on such significant historical figures as Gunnar Asplund, Le Corbusier, Carlo Scarpa, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Louis Sullivan.
4 days ago · Zum historischen Zentrum Berlins gehörte die Bauakademie von Karl Friedrich Schinkel, ein architektonisch hervorragendes Gebäude am Kupfergraben neben der Friedrichswerderschen Kirche gegenüber vom Schloß.
5 days ago · The Romantically tinged Neoclassicism of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, who became state architect of Prussia in 1815, embodied this era.
