"Ironically, the belief that the new age was essentially different from the past led to the emotional need to find "roots" in the past, to find some continuity with man's great achievements of the past. The unprecedented nature of so many of the architectural tasks and the altered conditions for their realization inevitably produced originality at the level of planning and construction; but as the Romantic architect and, indeed, sensible men realized, man is an emotional creature who needs to be reassured by the familiar and the intelligible. It is a measure of Schinkel's genius that he could provide such functional solutions to particular problems, clothe them in intelligible and expressive forms, incorporate them so felicitously into their environment, and make it all seem so natural and inevitable."
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Rand Carter in "Karl Friedrich Schinkel, The Last Great Architect" (1981)
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Karl Friedrich Schinkel
1781 – 1841
deutscher Architekt, BegrĂĽnder der [[w:Schinkelschule|Schinkelschule]]
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