Acknowledgments
Introduction
On the Views of Marienburg, Castle of the Teutonic Order in West Prussia, Drawn in the Year 1794 by Mr. Gilly, Supervisor at the Royal Building Administration
Note on the Friedrichsdenkmal
Version 1
Version 2
Notes on a Sheet of Sketches for the Friedrichsdenkmal
A Description of the Villa of Bagatelle, near Paris
A Description of Rincy, a Country Seat near Paris
Some Thoughts on the Necessity of Endeavoring to Unify the Various Departments of Architecture in Both Theory and Practice
Appendix 1: List of a Selection of the Duplicates Present in the Royal Library of This City
Appendix 2: Friedrich Gilly's Book and Engraving Collection—Introduction and Facsimile List of Titles
Bibliography
Index

“With the welcome publication of Essays on Architecture, 1796–1799, attention can shift for a time from [Gilly’s] designs, with their gripping ‘carcase aesthetic,’ to his ideas.” —Newsletter of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain

Fritz Neumeyer has taught at the Universität Dortmund in Germany, Princeton University, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, and at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He now holds a chair in the theory of architecture at the Technische Universität Berlin.

David Britt was an editor of art books at Thames & Hudson in London for more than twenty years; since 1987 he has been translating full-time. His translations in the Getty Research Institute’s Texts & Documents series include titles by Aby Warburg, Friedrich Gilly, and Nicolas Le Camus de Mézières.