Friedrich Gilly

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Introduction by Fritz NeumeyerTranslation by David Britt When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at the age of twenty-eight, his architectural career spanned less than a decade and none of his major designs had been built. Nevertheless, his ideas so influenced Berlin architecture for the next century that today he is widely regarded as the founder of that city's modern architectural tradition. How did an individual achieve so much in so short a time? The answer lies in part in Gilly's innovative architectural…