Nancy Keller

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Friedrich Gilly calligraphy Nancy KellerIntroduction by Fritz Neumeyer Translation 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