Few modern architects have left such a profound mark on their era as Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). The book also offers multiple stimuli for reflection on the ambiguous fate of Schinkel's work.
Few modern architects have left such a profound mark on their era as Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841). With his constructions and his vast activity of consulting and guidance as Prussian superintendent of public works, he not only designed the visage of the new capital of the nation that emerged victorious from the Napoleonic Wars, a nation destined to become the center of gravity of European history, but also interpreted the tensions of a formidable era of passage. Contemporary to Fichte, Hegel and Beethoven, the work of Schinkel creates an interweaving of extraordinary depth of tensions that represent the strength of the modern age. The volume reconstructs his entire career, and is the first complete study on the Prussian architect to appear in Italian, filling an inexplicable gap. This is why the text by Rave has been chosen, the scholar who laid the groundwork for subsequent historiographic achievements. This volume, written during the time of the Nazi regime, also offers multiple stimuli for reflection on the ambiguous fate of Schinkel’s work.