PUBLISHING   "German Neoclassic Architecture"
Chuokoron-Bijyutu-Shuppann,Tokyo,1996 (Japanese, 486 pages, 27,810yen, ISBN 4-8055-0301-7).

by Toshimasa Sugimoto

       - contents -

1. Introduction: Study on the German neoclassic architecture

2. Formation of neoclassicism

(1)Architectural aesthetics of neoclassicism

1) From Winckelmann to the architectural philsophy of idealism

2) Transition in the architectural thought of J.W.v.Goethe

(2)Formation of neoclassicism in Prussia

(3)Friedrich Weinbrenner

1) Aesthetics of 'Form' in 'Architektonisches Lehrbuch'

2) Systematization of design method in 'Architektonisches Lehrbuch'

(4)David and Friedrich Gilly 1) From enlightenment to revolutionary architecture

2) Formal analysis of 'Monument for Friedrich II' designed by F.Gilly and its social meaning

3. Karl Friedrich Schinkel intruduction: Life of K.F.Schinkel

(1)On form

1) Formal analysis of 'Memorial cathedral for Liberation War' and its social meaning

2) Analysis of formal composition of 'Neue Wache' and 'Schauspielhaus'

3) Formal analysis of 'Altes Museum' and the social meaning of public institution

4) Formal analysis of model designs for townhouses and the idea of the urban spacial order

5) The method of formal composition of picturesque in the design of villa

(2)On idea

1) The consept of 'Zusammenhang'(coherence) at the period of romanticism

2) Architectural theory - through the analysis of ideal 'Residenz'(royal palace)

4. Extent and Inheritance of german neoclassicism

1) Rigorism of neoclassicsm in Leo v.Klenze

2) The mode of acceptance of J.-N.-L. Durand's design method

in the German neoclassic architecture

3) The architectural formal structure and its transformation process around 1800

4) Inheritance of neo-classicism in the 20th century

5. Conclusion: Formal system of neoclassic architecture

 

 

 

  This book includes the doctoral thesis 'The formal idea in German neoclassic architecture' to Tokyo University,1979. And this is the publication promoted by the grant-in-aid of scientific research of Japanese Ministry of Education.

 

   
 (c) Toshimasa Sugimoto