Resumen de Zur Deutung des Berliner Marienkirchturmaufsatzes

Christian Scholl

• The writer discusses Carl Gotthard Langhans's 1789–90 decorative addition to the top of the tower of the Marienkirche in Berlin. The addition is a two-story copper-clad wood construction with an octagonal ground plan. The writer focuses on Langhans's use of Classical and Gothic forms and on how these elements were understood by 18th-century architectural theorists.