Friedrich Weinbrenner. Critical edition of the writings

This project marks the first edition of the written work of architecture teacher Friedrich Weinbrenner (1766-1826), providing a significant and comprehensive theoretical position for research. Despite having developed a unique influence with around one hundred direct students and shaping an entire cultural landscape across southwestern Germany, northern Switzerland, and Alsace, and despite his substantial representation of Classicism, co-founding modern architectural education and building administration, and authoring the only architectural textbook of its kind in German during his time, such a comprehensive analysis has been lacking until now. Alongside the Prussian tradition from David Gilly to Karl Friedrich Schinkel, this second major source of modern German architecture has remained underrepresented, thus limiting a specific perspective on architecture in general. A systematic analysis and critical edition of his writings aim to correct the fragmented, inconsistent, and historically negatively judged image in the literature. This independent, professional approach, widely disseminated through Weinbrenner's example and teaching, will further reveal the depth and modernity of an era in art and architectural history that terms like Classicism insufficiently describe.

The publication is released under the following title: Friedrich Weinbrenner: Architektonisches Lehrbuch (Friedrich Weinbrenner and the Weinbrenner School, Volume 7). Bad Saulgau 2016, 544 pages, 210 illustrations (113 monochrome, 97 four-color), ISBN 978-3-944258-03-4 .

The project is completed and was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Scientific processing by PD Dr. Ulrich Maximilian Schumann.