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Publication Access status: Open Access , 17 zu 7 - Der ideale Grundriss von Castel del Monte und seine Überarbeitung in der frühen Werkplanung(2025); The Apulian Castel del Monte has a distinct floor plan that is based upon three concentric octagons. This is why the proportions of the floor plan are based upon the Silver Ratio. However, this proporational system requires measurements which have irrational numbers that are very difficult to work with on a construction site. For this reason, the design of the building was converted into a modular system during the early construction planning phase. The modular system operates with whole numbers while preserving the intended design concept. The ratio of 17 to 7 is of fundamental importance here.Source Type:Preprint7 14 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Der Grundriss von Castel del Monte zwischen idealem Entwurf und Ausführung(2025); The ideal planning of the Castel del Monte in Apulia was based on the proportions of the silver section. This article shows how resulting irrational numbers were rounded up or down to whole numbers during the work planning, measurement and construction of the building.Source Type:Preprint4 20 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Der Grundriss von Castel del Monte und der Silberne Schnitt(2022)Castel del Monte (around/after 1240), located in Puglia, is a World Heritage Site. The plan of the building consists of three regular octagons: Inner courtyard, main structure and towers. The origin of this design remains a mystery to this day. The attempts at explanation presented so far are based on an exclusively simple geometrical method. This ignores the extraordinarily high level of knowledge in mathematics at the court of the client, Emperor Frederick II, at the time of its conception and construction. Thus, closer examination shows that not only are the octagons in themselves in relation to the silver section, but also to each other. Furthermore, the accuracy of the construction shows that it must have been done with the help of a computational method. Against this background, the Castel del Monte may be understood above all as an expression of the high level of mathematics at the court of Emperor Frederick II.Source Type:Preprint15 18 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Am Gruneberg a Pössneck(2022); The housing estate Pössneck (Thuringia) of the architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950) was built in 1921. It is his most significant urban development in which his outstanding theory of housing development is expressed in an exemplary manner. This applies to the layout of straight streets, the use of house types and their unpretentious craftsmanship. The house types vary in size and adaptation to the distinctly sloping terrain, resulting in a homogeneous yet varied and dynamic appearance.Source Type:Preprint3 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Architettura e ritmo(2022); The building known as the Festspielhaus (festival theater), located in the garden city of Hellerau near Dresden, was built in 1912 according to the plans of the architect Heinrich Tessenow (1876-1950). It contains spaces for a school for rhythmic dance in addition to a hall for public performances. Tessenow was a leading figure in German architectural culture, and the Festspielhaus is considered not only one of his most significant designs, but, moreover, a key example of reform architecture from the early twentieth century. Constructed for the Swiss music educator, Émile Jaques-Dalcroze to teach his particular method of rhythmic gymnastics, the many students who received training here include the illustrious dancer and pedagogue Mary Wigman. In addition to its stark, undecorated exterior which recalls a highly abstracted temple front, the building also attracted much attention due to the articulation of the interior hall according to ideas propagated by Adolphe Appia, a theorist of avant-garde theater. This included surfaces which seemed mutable and indeterminate, like the walls, that were outfitted with a multitude of lamps and concealed by a layer of translucent cloth, and appeared to glow with varying intensity.Source Type:Preprint4 20 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Rammekens, eine frühe Bastionärfestung in den Niederlanden (De Boni, ab 1547)(1987)The Rammekens fortress was built since 1547 in the Dutch province of Zeeland near the town of Vlissingen. The client was Emperor Charles V, the architect was Donato di Pellizuoli from Bergamo. The purpose of the fortification was to secure the entrance to the port of Antwerp. Rammekens is one of the oldest bastion fortresses outside of Italy. The Gate of the building belongs to the earliest examples of the import of the Italian Renaissance in the Netherlands.Source Type:Article7 7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Ideal und Wirklichkeit(1996)Um die Waage von Haarlem rankte sich ein einhundert Jahre alter Gelehrtenstreit, wer das Gebäude entworfen hat: Der im Entwerfen von Gebäuden unbedarfte Maler Cornelis Cornelisz. oder der Stadtbaumeister Lieven de Key. Der vorliegende Artikel liefert widmet sich hauptsächlich der Analyse des Entwurfs für die Fassade des Gebäudes. Diese Unterusuchung liefert den definitiven Beweis, dass der Entwurf von niemand anderem als Lieven de Key stammen kann. The Weigh House of Haarlem was the subject a one hundred year old scholarly dispute about who designed the building: The painter Cornelis Cornelisz., who was inexperienced in designing buildings, or the city architect Lieven de Key. The present article is mainly devoted to the analysis of the design of the building's façade. This investigation provides the definitive proof that the design could not have come from anyone other than Lieven de Key.Source Type:Article2 12 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Der Umbau des Heilig-Geist Hospitals von Alkmaar zur Waage (1582)(1996)First analysis in architectural history of the of the individual building phases of the socalled Weigh House of Alkmaar, including the original Holy Spirit Hospital, the extension of an almshouse and the conversion into a trade hall called 'Weighing House'. The text shows that the conception of the original building as a chapel is a typical misinterpretation of medieval hospitals. Furthermore it is shown that the conversion to a so-called Weigh House is a multifunctional trading hall.Source Type:Conference Proceedings6 8 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , Die Gartenstadt Staaken als Prototyp der modernen deutschen Siedlung(1992)First detailed architectural history of the garden city of Staaken (1914 et sqq.) near Berlin based on newly discovered source material. Contribution to the catalogue for the highly acclaimed exhibition 'Moderne Architektur in Deutschland; Reform und Tradition' in the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt/Main. The text deals also intensively with the projections, myths and misinterpretations and reveals the outstanding importance of this garden city for the construction of housing estates in the early 20th century.Source Type:Book Part5 25 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Publication Access status: Open Access , "Fast wahr"(2009)The article deals with the uncritical transfer of the argumentation of the style clashes between moderate and functionalist modernity of the 1920s to the present and the corresponding one-sided evaluation according to functionalist prejudices. The focus of the study is the Gartenstadt Staaken by the architect Paul Schmitthenner, which was one of the most progressive urban development projects in Germany at the time of its creation (1914 ff.). This example illustrates the absurdity and ridiculousness of the ideologically narrowed argumentation that is put forward from time to time.Source Type:Book Part1 26