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Schinkel 'in Athens': Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning (Paperback)
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Schinkel 'in Athens': Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning (Paperback)
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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!
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