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contributions to Neoclassicism. In Western architecture: Germany. Friedrich Gilly built little, dying in 1800, but he left some remarkable designs that justify his central place in German Neoclassicism. His project for a monument to Frederick the Great (1797) consisted of a raised Greek Doric temple on a geometric substructure surrounded by ...

Friedrich Gilly (1772—1800) Quick Reference (1772–1800). Son of David Gilly, he learned practice and theory with his father in Stettin (now Szczecin), and in 1788 settled in Berlin. He developed his skills while also acting as Inspector in the Royal Buildings Department aged only 16, where he worked under Erdmannsdorff and Langhans.

This volume seeks to afford new access to Friedrich Gilly's ideas on architecture by presenting for the first time annotated English translations of his four published essays and the unpublished descriptions of his proposed memorial to Frederick the Great.

This table is a rare example of the work of Friedrich Gilly, who was born in Pomerania, which is now part of Poland but was then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. Gilly trained with his architect father David Gilly, who had founded an important school of architecture in Berlin in 1793.

Friedrich David Gilly was a German architect and the son of the architect David Gilly. His works are influenced by revolutionary architecture . Born in Altdamm, Pomerania, , Gilly was known as a prodigy and the teacher of the young Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at age twenty-eight, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete. Nevertheless, his ideas so strongly influenced Berlin architecture of the next century that he is now widely regarded as the founder of Berlin’s distinct architectural tradition.

Gilly, Friedrich (1772–1800). Son of David Gilly, he learned practice and theory with his father in Stettin (now Szczecin), and in 1788 settled in Berlin. Source for information on Gilly, Friedrich: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture dictionary.