Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe

Download or read book Friedrich Weinbrenner, Architect of Karlsruhe written by Friedrich Weinbrenner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1986-09 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.