INTERNATIONAL NEOCLASSICISM

• Karl Friedrich Schinkel – Germany– Prussian genius– All levels of building– Fused site and building– Master of illusionary effects

• Leo Von Klenze– Bavarian– Developed evolved versions of “Temple on

High” and Propylaea gate

BERLIN SCHAUSPIELHAUS (NATIONAL THEATRE) 1819

• Complex program– Theatre, concert halls, offices

• Style– Grecian neoclassicism– Greek revival and Michaelangelo– Through 19th century functionalist eyes

• Site relationship– Building mirrors architectural program of two

churches fronting on square

Berlin Schauspielhaus 1819

ALTES MUSEUM - 1824

• Shrine of cultural treasures– Siting and approach contribute– Faces royal palace with garden between

• Trees on both sides part for Berlin Cathedral

• Monumental image– Simple elements

• Model of planning and utility– Su,,etru amd axoa;out– Well lighted galleries along exterior walls with flexible

spaces and panels perpendicular to window for glare

ALTES MUSEUM 1824

LATER WORK 1826 - 1840

• Utilitarian Works– Inspired by England’s factory buildings– Skeletons cast in historicist forms

• Library project 1853• Bauakademie 1836

– Looks forward to commercial buildings of later 19th C.

• Picturesque Tendencies– Villas

• Charlottenhof, Potsdam - 1826

Schinkel

BauakademieMemorial

Charlottenhof 1826

Rundbogen

Walhalla 1831 Von Klenze

Propylaea Gate 1846

Ludwigstrasse