Schinkel 'in Athens': Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning

Preface ;


On the Narrative and the Meta-narrative ;


On the nature of 'Biography' ;


Karl Friedrich Schinkel ;


George Christian Gropius ;


Eduard Schaubert, Stamatios Kleanthes and 'their' plan of Athens ;



Introduction (A) ;


Back to Euclide's Elements of Geometry ;


The north-south and east-west axes anchoring the plan ;


The over-estimated Propylaia and the under-estimated Library of Hadrian in reading the 1833 plan ;


A new plan or an extension plan for the old town? ;


An Urban Interlude on 17th-19th c. European Extension Plans ;



Introduction (B) ;


The Roman paradigm ;


Eclectic relations between the Athens plan and Schinkel's architecture and urban
design (1) ;


Eclectic relations between the Athens plan and Schinkel's architecture and urban
design (2) ;



Act One (in Two Scenes) ;


Close encounters in Athens, Rome and Berlin ;



Act Two (in Two Scenes) ;


The meta-narrative approach to the authorship of the 1833 new Athens plan ;



Act Three (in Four Scenes) ;


Urban design in and outside Berlin - philosophical views on social priorities ;



Act Four (in Six Scenes) ;


Transcendental life ;



Epilogue ;



Bibliography ;



Index

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• Planeamento urbano - aspectos arquitectónicos
• História da arquitetura
• Arquitetos individuais e empresas de arquitetura

Architecture; City Planning; Athens; Greece; 19th Century