KARL FRIEDRICH SCHINKEL

• Was a Prussian architect, city planner

and painter
• Also designed furniture and stage sets
• Was a famous German architect
• His most famous buildings are found in
and around Berlin

Born 13th March 1781

Died 9th October 1841
• Designed both Neoclassical and Neogothic buildings
• Moved to Berlin where he was an architecture student under Architect
Friedrich Gilly (1772-1800)
• Took a trip to Italy then returned to Berlin in 1805 and become a painter
• He gave up on painting and went back to architecture
• In 1809 he designed furniture for Quenn Louise’s palace
• In 1815 he was appointed State Architect in Prussia. He became
responsible for reshaping Berlin
• Most of his designs in Berlin vwere based on the revival of various
historical styles such as Greek Revival
• He worked under Frederick William III.
Buildings with Greek Revival styles
• Konigschauspelhaus, Berlin, 1818
• Altes museum, Berlin, 1822-1830
Buildings with Gothic Revival Style
• Berlin cathedral
Buildings with Gothic revival style
• Mausoleum for Louise (1810)
• Friedrichswerder Church, Berlin, 1824- 1831
• In 1826, he worked on the Church of
• St. Nicholas in Potsdam
• He was appointed Director at the Prussian Office and Public Works
where he worked on the interior decorations of the apartments for
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and Prince August
Other works of Karl Friedrich
• Neue Wache
• Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
• Berlin palace
BUILDING ELEMENTS AND STRUCTURE
• Neoclassical structures were characterized by
1. Grandeur of scale

United States Capital- William

Thornton
2. Simplicity in form

Friedrichswerder Church- Karl

Friedrich
3. Symmetry.

Pueblo county government Building –

Albert Randolph
4. Flat or domed roof
• Most interiors have a rotunda
• On the outside the roof may be flat, domed or with a pediment
• On the entablature the frieze would also contain wreathes, carvings
and sculptures
• Also present are motifs on the entablature
Vilnius Cathedral
Idaho state capitol
• 5. Minimum decorations
• Interior and exterior or neoclassical buildings are characterized by
lack of extravagance or ornamentation
• Architect’s sought to oppose the Rococo excesses
• There was a preference for blank walls
The Baltimore Basilica
6. Use of tall columns
• Doric and ionic
• detailing