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Dean Mills, Dean of the Missouri School of Journalism, summarizing the events from Thursday evening and Friday's sessions.
Façade to the Römerberg (Roman Mountain)
On the Recent Restoration of the Romans Façade
With the acquisition of the two houses “Römer (Romans)” and “Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan)”, 600 years ago, the foundation was laid for one of the internationally most famous German town halls. Gradually, in the following centuries, other adjacent buildings (including the houses “Löwenstein (Lion Stone)” and “Wanebach”, “Frauenstein (Woman Stone)” and “Salzhaus (Salt House)”, “Laderam (Lateran)” or “Alt-Limpurg (Old Limpurg)” and “Silberberg (Silver Mountain)” added, which are now all summarized under the generic term Romans, In the course of time, the interiors of the individual town houses were rebuilt several times for the purpose of urban administration inside. But even the external appearance, that of the once rather simple stepped-gabled façades to the Romans Mountain, at the end of the 19th century no longer satisfied the representational needs of the powerful, prospering commercial and industrial city of Frankfurt am Main. With the redesign of the facades of these three houses (“Old Limpurg”, “Romans” and “Lion Stone”) to a design by Max Meckel, 1896-1900, the Romans—according to the former opinion—have received adequate appearance of its national historical significance.
While Meckel formed the facades of the three buildings individually, he put the emphasis of the decorative design on the exterior of the eponymous house “Romans”. For example, the Imperial Hall received a market-facing balcony on escutcheon-decorated consoles, with a magnificent balustrade in late Gothic forms. Between the ballroom windows, four almost life-sized imperial figures and an elaborately designed tracery canopy were arranged above the dial of the clock. Immediately below the keystone of the gable relay towers the mighty Frankfurt coat of arms.
The air raids in the Second World War also had devastating damage in the area of the Romans ensemble. The houses burned out completely. In addition to the two late-Gothic vaults of the houses “Romans” and “Golden Swan”, however, a large part of the massive facades of the houses “Old Limpurg”, “Romans” (here, however, the upper gable was completely lost) and “Lion Stone” remained largely intact, During the reconstruction of the Frankfurt city center the Romans was rebuilt in the years 1951-53, one of the outstanding tasks in the field of conservation. While the interior design of the buildings was largely in the 1950s style, the façades of the three stepped gable houses were prepared using parts of the overlying substance.
Remarkable is also the handling of the post-war period with the two destroyed, once important historical half-timbered houses “Woman Stone” and “Salt House”. The new building built in the early 1950s as a gabled double house arouses associations with the half-timbered construction of the lost predecessor buildings and at the same time self-confidently displays the modern construction method thanks to its slender grid of reinforced concrete construction. Although the mosaic decor of the wall panels certainly cannot and should not be an adequate substitute for the magnificent facades of the historic buildings, the twin dwelling represents an independent achievement within the reconstruction planning after the war. It holds commemorative values and yet creates something new. From the historically disguised ground floor zone rises the visible reinforced concrete structure on the upper floor. Their system merges with the monumental mural by Wilhelm Geissler “Phoenix from the ashes” facing Paulsplatz to the central Frankfurt memorial to commemorate the destruction of war and reconstruction.
The decision in the context of the recent refurbishment of a color scheme, which is based on the appearance of the Romans at the time of its restoration in 1951-53, had design consequences especially for the field of building sculpture. In addition to extensive restoration work on the tracery parapet of the balcony, the coats of arms and imperial statutes, which had been heavily colored in 1975, had to be gently cleaned and, as in 1952/53, painted in natural stone. Subsequently, the figures were given back their former gilding in the field of insignia and “precious metal” accessories. The ornamental gilding of natural stone reflects an aesthetic conception of the post-war period, as it still shows, for example, in numerous commercial buildings on Roman Mountain and in Braubach Street.
The Romans has always been adapted to the exterior taste of the time, as the multiple transformations since 1900 impressively demonstrate. The design of the façade, which has now been completed, certainly reflects today’s aesthetic conceptions; At the same time, as an approach to the design of the early 1950s, it honors the achievements of post-World War II reconstruction.
Dr. Stefan Timpe
Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main
The left-hand corner of the Alt-Limpurg is a statue of Frankfurtia, the female embodiment of the city.
A new series of books that summarize the first seven decades of Le Mans. Available for pre-order on Amazon.
This weekend may be summarized in 3 words: Trees & old stones.
On Friday the stones were the ruins of Villers-la-Ville, a place I hadn't visited in way too long.
In 1146 this abbey was founded by the Ordo Cisterciensis of St. Bernard.
Went out in the snow today. Instead of giving you a shot that summarized the day I decided to make it a stop motion.
So basically we don't have sleds. It's never snowed enough that we felt the need to have one. When we heard this crazy snow storm was coming we were in a mad dash to find sleds. Of course there weren't any available, so when we went to Home Depot to find a shovel (which there were none), we found mixing bins that they marked as sleds.
Needless to say, it was good enough- and we had a blast.
1: Summarize topic & relationship between [R] & [L]
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2: Explain the main points in the [L] and relate each to info in the [R] passage
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Façade to the Römerberg (Roman Mountain)
On the Recent Restoration of the Romans Façade
With the acquisition of the two houses “Römer (Romans)” and “Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan)”, 600 years ago, the foundation was laid for one of the internationally most famous German town halls. Gradually, in the following centuries, other adjacent buildings (including the houses “Löwenstein (Lion Stone)” and “Wanebach”, “Frauenstein (Woman Stone)” and “Salzhaus (Salt House)”, “Laderam (Lateran)” or “Alt-Limpurg (Old Limpurg)” and “Silberberg (Silver Mountain)” added, which are now all summarized under the generic term Romans, In the course of time, the interiors of the individual town houses were rebuilt several times for the purpose of urban administration inside. But even the external appearance, that of the once rather simple stepped-gabled façades to the Romans Mountain, at the end of the 19th century no longer satisfied the representational needs of the powerful, prospering commercial and industrial city of Frankfurt am Main. With the redesign of the facades of these three houses (“Old Limpurg”, “Romans” and “Lion Stone”) to a design by Max Meckel, 1896-1900, the Romans—according to the former opinion—have received adequate appearance of its national historical significance.
While Meckel formed the facades of the three buildings individually, he put the emphasis of the decorative design on the exterior of the eponymous house “Romans”. For example, the Imperial Hall received a market-facing balcony on escutcheon-decorated consoles, with a magnificent balustrade in late Gothic forms. Between the ballroom windows, four almost life-sized imperial figures and an elaborately designed tracery canopy were arranged above the dial of the clock. Immediately below the keystone of the gable relay towers the mighty Frankfurt coat of arms.
The air raids in the Second World War also had devastating damage in the area of the Romans ensemble. The houses burned out completely. In addition to the two late-Gothic vaults of the houses “Romans” and “Golden Swan”, however, a large part of the massive facades of the houses “Old Limpurg”, “Romans” (here, however, the upper gable was completely lost) and “Lion Stone” remained largely intact, During the reconstruction of the Frankfurt city center the Romans was rebuilt in the years 1951-53, one of the outstanding tasks in the field of conservation. While the interior design of the buildings was largely in the 1950s style, the façades of the three stepped gable houses were prepared using parts of the overlying substance.
Remarkable is also the handling of the post-war period with the two destroyed, once important historical half-timbered houses “Woman Stone” and “Salt House”. The new building built in the early 1950s as a gabled double house arouses associations with the half-timbered construction of the lost predecessor buildings and at the same time self-confidently displays the modern construction method thanks to its slender grid of reinforced concrete construction. Although the mosaic decor of the wall panels certainly cannot and should not be an adequate substitute for the magnificent facades of the historic buildings, the twin dwelling represents an independent achievement within the reconstruction planning after the war. It holds commemorative values and yet creates something new. From the historically disguised ground floor zone rises the visible reinforced concrete structure on the upper floor. Their system merges with the monumental mural by Wilhelm Geissler “Phoenix from the ashes” facing Paulsplatz to the central Frankfurt memorial to commemorate the destruction of war and reconstruction.
The decision in the context of the recent refurbishment of a color scheme, which is based on the appearance of the Romans at the time of its restoration in 1951-53, had design consequences especially for the field of building sculpture. In addition to extensive restoration work on the tracery parapet of the balcony, the coats of arms and imperial statutes, which had been heavily colored in 1975, had to be gently cleaned and, as in 1952/53, painted in natural stone. Subsequently, the figures were given back their former gilding in the field of insignia and “precious metal” accessories. The ornamental gilding of natural stone reflects an aesthetic conception of the post-war period, as it still shows, for example, in numerous commercial buildings on Roman Mountain and in Braubach Street.
The Romans has always been adapted to the exterior taste of the time, as the multiple transformations since 1900 impressively demonstrate. The design of the façade, which has now been completed, certainly reflects today’s aesthetic conceptions; At the same time, as an approach to the design of the early 1950s, it honors the achievements of post-World War II reconstruction.
Dr. Stefan Timpe
Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main
The Haus Römer shows the four kaisers of the Holy Roman Empire, two city coats of arms, a clock face, and a placard describing the most important facts about the building. The four kaisers are Frederick Barbarossa (the first king to be elected in Frankfurt), Louis the Bavarian (who gave convention rights to the city and allowed an expansion of the city), Charles IV (who made Frankfurt the location of the Kaiser selection vote), and Maximilian II (the first kaiser to be crowned in Frankfurt cathedral).
10/4/10
The Miracle of the Loretto Chapel Staircase…summarized.
1)Chapel built (completed in 1878)
2)No access to choir loft
3)No other solution but to build ladder or staircase that would interfere with church space
4)Nuns prayed for solution
5)Mysterious old man arrives with donkey
6)Completes spiral staircase over several months
7)Disappears having never asked for payment
8)Staircase winds two 360 degree turns without central support
9)Made of a mysterious wood not native to the area
10)Isn’t supposed to physically be able to support weight but it does
Billed as a miracle (http://www.lorettochapel.com/history.html) but debunked by www.snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/loretto.asp), the spiral staircase at the Loretto Chapel was still pretty darn impressive. I didn’t mind the $3 admission charge (the Chapel has been a privately owned, for-profit enterprise for many, many years) but I could have done without the compulsory walk through the huge gift shop.
Ultimately, coming from a person whose major life-carpentry accomplishment is a spice rack from 9th grade woodshop, I would definitely recommend visiting this work of art if you are passing through Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Hey, no worries
I'll start out with some relatively basic info:
(I'll try to compress it as much as I can, but I have a tendency to get detailed and ramble, so heads up!)
Keep all the info I give about each of the topics you asked about as I will do my best to summarize everything in the end.
*ISO*
Adjusting the ISO will change the cameras sensors' sensitivity to light. The lower the ISO number the less sensitive, the higher the number the more sensitive.
*Shutter Speed*
Adjusting the Shutter Speed will change the length of time light hits the cameras sensor. The slower the shutter speed the more light hits the sensor, the higher the speed the less light.
Understanding Shutter Speed is critical for shooting anything that moves. If you want to freeze movement, do everything you can to get the fastest SS possible (1/4000 on the E-PL1), if you want to emphasize movement then try to use a slower shutter speed. (But be sure to not go too slow or anything that moved won't show up at all!)
Here I wanted to freeze the action as much as I could with the variables I was working with, so I used a 1/1000 shutter speed: www.flickr.com/photos/brb_photography/3868442325/
Here I used a "slow" shutter speed (1/15) to express how fast the guy was moving, but not too slow in order to avoid blurring the scene beyond recognition: www.flickr.com/photos/brb_photography/3868444933/
*Aperture*
Adjusting the Aperture adjusts how much light your lens lets in to the camera. It also adjusts how deep or how shallow your Depth of Field is.
Depth of Field is a beast of a subject on its own, but in a nutshell: Depth of Field (DoF) is how deep or shallow your zone of focus is. Shallow DoF is usually good for portrait or Macro photography, deep DoF is usually good for landscape photography. There are many variables with DoF that you will most likely learn as you gain experience.
Here is shallow DoF: www.flickr.com/photos/brb_photography/4550871003/
Notice how only one thing is in sharp focus, it is emphasized by the DoF
Here is deep DoF: www.flickr.com/photos/brb_photography/4670252725/
Notice how everything is in focus
The smaller the Aperture number (F/no), the shallower the DoF; The larger the F/no, the deeper the DoF.
Aperture is sort of confusing in that it works somewhat backwards... Smaller numbers actually represent larger apertures, larger holes for light to get through; bigger numbers represent smaller apertures, smaller holes.
F/2.8 is an opening 2x larger than f/5.6 on the same lens, and f/11 is an opening 2x smaller than f/5.6 and 4x smaller than f/2.8 on the same lens... Therefore f/2.8 lets in 2x as much light as f/5.6 and 4x as much light as f/11.
**Metering**
The cameras metering system detects the exposure for whatever you're pointing it at. There are a few different selections for Metering Modes that will allow you to control whether the camera reads light from the entire image, from around the center, or only in the center... There are two more options that will allow for more customization, but learning those will come in time.
You can control the metering in the P/A/S/M modes, but not in iAuto.
In the P/A/S modes you can control the Exposure Bias by pressing the +/- button, this will tell the camera to expose according to your settings. You can see the effect of these adjustments on the screen as you make them.
In Manual mode you can't adjust the exposure bias because you're in control of the exposure, not the camera; rather you read the exposure meter and judge your settings based on it.
All of these functions work hand in hand.
ISO affects exposure
Shutter Speed affects exposure
Aperture affects exposure
Metering controls all of those AND exposure
If you're in a controlled lighting situation, like inside a store or building or even your house you'll see that if you adjust the ISO, you'll have to adjust the shutter speed or aperture an equal amount to get back the same exposure that you had before you adjusted anything.
But in many situations, you will adjust one of those controls and not touch the others in order to change the exposure how you want it.
Say you're at the beach and want to take a freeze-action shot of some gulls flying in the air... Your ISO is 100 and your aperture is 5.6, but your shutter speed is 1/320. In order to best freeze the gulls, you will probably want a shutter speed of 1/1000 or faster. Your lens won't open up more than f/5.6 at 42mm, so you can't go to f/3.5 for more speed... What do you do?
Adjust your ISO 5 "clicks" from 100 to 320. The difference between a shutter speed of 1/320 and 1/1000 is 5 "clicks" (1/400, 1/500, 1/640, 1/800, 1/1000), you can't adjust the aperture 5 clicks faster, so you adjust the ISO 5 "clicks" to compensate for the faster shutter speed.
(When I say "clicks", this isn't a technical term, these are literally the audible clicks the buttons on your camera make as you press them.)
If your lighting is rapidly changing, like at concerts, you'll probably want to use either P/A/S instead of M so you don't have to constantly change your settings, the camera will do it for you. Or maybe M with "Spot" metering is the way to go... It usually is for me.
Anything else you'd like to know?
I'd be more than happy to explain!
I'll send this to you as a message as well so you can save it if you wish...
Speakers summarize the discussions that took place in four panels just following President Barack Obama's address on US civil space policy at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
From left to right:
John Holdren, Advisor on Science and Technology to President Barack Obama
Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA
Norm Augustine, Chair of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
Miles O'Brien, journalist
Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator
Astriel : B&G Aurora
Face-up : Me
Cothes : Dollmore
Wig : Luts
***
Astriel feeling depressed. Betrayal is the summarization of her long life.
Speakers summarize the discussions that took place in four panels just following President Barack Obama's address on US civil space policy at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.
From left to right:
John Holdren, Advisor on Science and Technology to President Barack Obama
Lori Garver, Deputy Administrator of NASA
Norm Augustine, Chair of the Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
Miles O'Brien, journalist
Charlie Bolden, NASA Administrator
Jennie Ottinger
Death Comes for the Archbishop (book cover)
Gouache on paper (cover)
Summarized and hollowed book
2011
Blogging is a great method for summarizing past experiments and sketching the next on MOOCs. - But what are the methods for making real each and every experiment itself? Open space, design corpse, world café and recollecting the future have proven to be excellent methods for re-inventing and contextualizing IRL. The next step is taking them online and making them mobile. - Loving Karen Schmidt's comment in Living Bridges Planet Facebook Group - mentioning many next methods to discover:
"The International Learning Village! - a great opportunity to sharing stories and looking into the collective story: What connections are forming? What landscapes are arising? What’s the river beneath the river if you really stopped to look? Calling for practitioners of Art of Hosting, Deep Democracy, dragon dreaming, Spiral Dynamics, eco-villagenders, deep ecology and body work. Places still available! internationallearningvillage2012.withtank.com/"
Claire Umstead, Epidemiology Track, MPH Class of 2023
“Summarizing FoodNet Laboratory Survey Responses in Tennessee From 2017-2021”
Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt MPH Program
Public Health Practicum Colloquium
January 27, 2023
Photo: Chad Driver
AMANDA
To summarize Amanda: amazingly awesome. She’s cool. She’s fun. She is a most excellent planner and a super dependable woman of God. Amanda is into pilates, St. George Dragons and skiing circles around her husband, Tim.
New York-based Peachtree Media Advisors has just released its annual report summarizing mergers, acquisitions and amounts of capital raised in the online media market last year. The report is available as a PDF download (2MB). In 2008 there were were 707 merger, acquisition and capital raise transactions in the online sector of media - which was 92 more transactions than 2007. The breakdown was 348 capital raise transactions and 359 acquisitions. Despite the increase in transactions however, ... Read more...(READWRITEWEB.COM)
Claire Umstead, Epidemiology Track, MPH Class of 2023
“Summarizing FoodNet Laboratory Survey Responses in Tennessee From 2017-2021”
Nashville, Tennessee
Vanderbilt MPH Program
Public Health Practicum Colloquium
January 27, 2023
Photo: Chad Driver
Physics, summarized.
Theorem 1. If there are two objects that are moving and you don't want them to move, apply duct tape.
Theroem 2. If there are two objects that aren't moving ad you want them to move, apply WD-40.
Question. What happens if you apply both duct tape and WD-40?
***
I spent too much time duct taping stuff today and not enough taking pictures. Whoops.
This postcard summarizes a message I heard at the QUEST 2014 conference by the YRDSB.
The image for this postcard comes from a modified screen capture from a movie.
Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909, São Paulo – June 4, 1994, Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world famous. He is accredited with having introduced modernist landscape architecture to Brazil. He was known as a modern nature artist and a public urban space designer.
Roberto Burle Marx's father was an emigrant from the city Trier in Germany. His mother was raised from an upper class family in Brazil. Burle Marx's first landscaping inspirations came while studying painting in Germany, where he often visited the Dahlem Botanical Gardens and first learned about Brazil's native flora. Upon returning to Brazil in 1930, he began collecting plants in and around his home. He went to school at the National School of Fine Arts in Rio in 1930 where he focused on visual arts under Leo Putz and Candido Portinari. While in school he associated with several of Brazil’s future leaders in architecture and botanists who continued to be of significant influence in his personal and professional life. One of these was his professor, Brazilian Modernism’s Lucio Costa, the architect and planner who lived down the street from Burle. In 1932, Burle Marx designed his first landscape for a private residence by the architects Lucio Costa and Gregori Warchavchik. This project, the Schwartz house was the beginning of a collaboration with Costa which was enriched later by Oscar Niemeyer who designed the Brazilian Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. Niemeyer also designed the Pampulha complex in 1942 which Marx designed gardens for.
In 1949 he acquired the 365,000m² estate Barra de Guaratiba (just outside of Rio de Janeiro). Burle Marx began taking expeditions into the Brazilian rain forest with botanists, landscape architects, architects and other researchers to gather plant specimens. He learned to practice studying plants in situ from the botanist Henrique Lahmeyer de Mello Barreto and established his garden, nursery and tropical plant collection at Guaratiba. This property was donated to the Brazilian government in 1985 and became a national monument. Now called Sítio Roberto Burle Marx, under the direction of IPHAN-Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional / Ministério da Cultura, it houses over 3,500 species of plants. The house was rebuilt in a valley on the site of a garden house belonging to the original plantation estate.
Roberto Burle Marx founded a landscape studio in 1955 and in the same year he founded a landscape company, called Burle Marx & Cia. Ltda.
Much of his work has a sense of timelessnes and perfection. His aesthetics were often nature based, for example, never mixing flower colours, utilisation of big groups of the same specimen, using native plants and making a rocky field into a relaxing garden. He was very interested in each plant's character and what effect that has on the whole garden. He opened an office in Caracas, Venezuela in 1956 and started working with architects Jose Tabacow and Haruyoshi Ono in 1968. Marx worked on commissions thorough out Brazil, Argentina, in Chile and many other South American countries, France, South Africa, Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. Additionally his artwork can be found displayed throughout the city of Rio de Janeiro “it is an open-air museum of works displaying his unmistakable style, one wholly his own” (Montero 2001 p. 29). Roberto Burle Marx’s 62 year career ended when he died June 4, 1994 two months before his 85th birthday.
He spent a lot of time in the Brazilian forests where he was able to study and explore. This enabled him to add significantly to the botanical sciences, by discovering new rocks and plants for example. At least 30 plants bear his name. Marx was also involved in efforts to protect and conserve the rain forest from the destructive commercial activities of deforestation for bananas and other crops and clear cutting of timber.
Marx’s work “can be summarized in four general design concepts—the use of native tropical vegetation as a structural element of design, the rupture of symmetrical patterns in the conception of open spaces, the colorful treatment of pavements, and the use of free forms in water features” (Vaccarino 2000, p. 17). This approach is exemplified by the Copacabana Beach promenade, where native sea breeze resistant trees and palms appear in groupings along Avenida Atlantica. These groupings punctuate Portugese stone mosaics which form a giant abstract painting where no section along the promenade is the same. This “painting” is viewed from the balconies of hotels, and offers an ever changing view for those driving along the beach. The mosaics continue the entire two and a half mile distance of the beach. The water feature, in this case, is of course the ocean and beach, which is bordered by a 30 foot wide continuous scallop patterned mosaic walk (Eliovson 1991; Montero 2001). Copacabana Beach is “the most famous in Brazil” (Eliovson 1991 p. 103).
Origin: Tibet
Date: early 20th century
Medium: Pigments on cloth
Description: This diagram summarizes the Buddha’s enlightening vision under the bodhi tree. It explains the cyclical process of life, death, and rebirth (samsara). The Lord of Death, Yama, grips a wheel driven by three animals representing the mental poisons—attachment rooster), anger (snake), and ignorance (pig)—at its hub.
In the next circle from the center, people move upward to higher states of consciousness (light) and downward to afflicted states (dark). Their actions, polluted by the poisons, propel them in a continuous cycle of rebirth in the six realms of existence, depicted in the large segments around the two inner circles. These are the realms of gods and demi-gods (top left), humans (top right), animals (lower left), hungry ghosts (lower right), and hells (bottom). The wheel’s outer rim is the symbolic chain of causality that binds this closed circle with no clear way out.
When the Buddha comprehended its structure and dynamics of this cycle, he was also able to discern a pathway out of it that others can learn and follow. This is why the Buddha appears both outside the wheel, at the upper right, and within it, pointing the way out by teaching the Dharma.
(From the Rubin Museum website)
Built in 1848 and located at 1183 Georgia Avenue, this Greek Revival house features a Greek cross layout. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and is also a contributing property to the Macon Historic District, which was listed in 1974. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1973 for its excellent example of Greek Revival architecture.
Macon, Georgia, which is home to Mercer University, is a lovely college town located near the center of the state. One of Georgia's three Fall Line cities, it is one of my favorite communities in the American South. Macon is aptly summarized by the Department of the Interior with the following statement, "From an architectural point of view, the town is a goldmine of nineteenth century buildings."
The small city serves as the seat of Bibb County, though the city and county have a merged, or consolidated, government.
Façade to the Römerberg (Roman Mountain)
On the Recent Restoration of the Romans Façade
With the acquisition of the two houses “Römer (Romans)” and “Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan)”, 600 years ago, the foundation was laid for one of the internationally most famous German town halls. Gradually, in the following centuries, other adjacent buildings (including the houses “Löwenstein (Lion Stone)” and “Wanebach”, “Frauenstein (Woman Stone)” and “Salzhaus (Salt House)”, “Laderam (Lateran)” or “Alt-Limpurg (Old Limpurg)” and “Silberberg (Silver Mountain)” added, which are now all summarized under the generic term Romans, In the course of time, the interiors of the individual town houses were rebuilt several times for the purpose of urban administration inside. But even the external appearance, that of the once rather simple stepped-gabled façades to the Romans Mountain, at the end of the 19th century no longer satisfied the representational needs of the powerful, prospering commercial and industrial city of Frankfurt am Main. With the redesign of the facades of these three houses (“Old Limpurg”, “Romans” and “Lion Stone”) to a design by Max Meckel, 1896-1900, the Romans—according to the former opinion—have received adequate appearance of its national historical significance.
While Meckel formed the facades of the three buildings individually, he put the emphasis of the decorative design on the exterior of the eponymous house “Romans”. For example, the Imperial Hall received a market-facing balcony on escutcheon-decorated consoles, with a magnificent balustrade in late Gothic forms. Between the ballroom windows, four almost life-sized imperial figures and an elaborately designed tracery canopy were arranged above the dial of the clock. Immediately below the keystone of the gable relay towers the mighty Frankfurt coat of arms.
The air raids in the Second World War also had devastating damage in the area of the Romans ensemble. The houses burned out completely. In addition to the two late-Gothic vaults of the houses “Romans” and “Golden Swan”, however, a large part of the massive facades of the houses “Old Limpurg”, “Romans” (here, however, the upper gable was completely lost) and “Lion Stone” remained largely intact, During the reconstruction of the Frankfurt city center the Romans was rebuilt in the years 1951-53, one of the outstanding tasks in the field of conservation. While the interior design of the buildings was largely in the 1950s style, the façades of the three stepped gable houses were prepared using parts of the overlying substance.
Remarkable is also the handling of the post-war period with the two destroyed, once important historical half-timbered houses “Woman Stone” and “Salt House”. The new building built in the early 1950s as a gabled double house arouses associations with the half-timbered construction of the lost predecessor buildings and at the same time self-confidently displays the modern construction method thanks to its slender grid of reinforced concrete construction. Although the mosaic decor of the wall panels certainly cannot and should not be an adequate substitute for the magnificent facades of the historic buildings, the twin dwelling represents an independent achievement within the reconstruction planning after the war. It holds commemorative values and yet creates something new. From the historically disguised ground floor zone rises the visible reinforced concrete structure on the upper floor. Their system merges with the monumental mural by Wilhelm Geissler “Phoenix from the ashes” facing Paulsplatz to the central Frankfurt memorial to commemorate the destruction of war and reconstruction.
The decision in the context of the recent refurbishment of a color scheme, which is based on the appearance of the Romans at the time of its restoration in 1951-53, had design consequences especially for the field of building sculpture. In addition to extensive restoration work on the tracery parapet of the balcony, the coats of arms and imperial statutes, which had been heavily colored in 1975, had to be gently cleaned and, as in 1952/53, painted in natural stone. Subsequently, the figures were given back their former gilding in the field of insignia and “precious metal” accessories. The ornamental gilding of natural stone reflects an aesthetic conception of the post-war period, as it still shows, for example, in numerous commercial buildings on Roman Mountain and in Braubach Street.
The Romans has always been adapted to the exterior taste of the time, as the multiple transformations since 1900 impressively demonstrate. The design of the façade, which has now been completed, certainly reflects today’s aesthetic conceptions; At the same time, as an approach to the design of the early 1950s, it honors the achievements of post-World War II reconstruction.
Dr. Stefan Timpe
Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main
The left-hand corner of the Alt-Limpurg is a statue of Frankfurtia, the female embodiment of the city.
Façade to the Römerberg (Roman Mountain)
On the Recent Restoration of the Romans Façade
With the acquisition of the two houses “Römer (Romans)” and “Goldener Schwan (Golden Swan)”, 600 years ago, the foundation was laid for one of the internationally most famous German town halls. Gradually, in the following centuries, other adjacent buildings (including the houses “Löwenstein (Lion Stone)” and “Wanebach”, “Frauenstein (Woman Stone)” and “Salzhaus (Salt House)”, “Laderam (Lateran)” or “Alt-Limpurg (Old Limpurg)” and “Silberberg (Silver Mountain)” added, which are now all summarized under the generic term Romans, In the course of time, the interiors of the individual town houses were rebuilt several times for the purpose of urban administration inside. But even the external appearance, that of the once rather simple stepped-gabled façades to the Romans Mountain, at the end of the 19th century no longer satisfied the representational needs of the powerful, prospering commercial and industrial city of Frankfurt am Main. With the redesign of the facades of these three houses (“Old Limpurg”, “Romans” and “Lion Stone”) to a design by Max Meckel, 1896-1900, the Romans—according to the former opinion—have received adequate appearance of its national historical significance.
While Meckel formed the facades of the three buildings individually, he put the emphasis of the decorative design on the exterior of the eponymous house “Romans”. For example, the Imperial Hall received a market-facing balcony on escutcheon-decorated consoles, with a magnificent balustrade in late Gothic forms. Between the ballroom windows, four almost life-sized imperial figures and an elaborately designed tracery canopy were arranged above the dial of the clock. Immediately below the keystone of the gable relay towers the mighty Frankfurt coat of arms.
The air raids in the Second World War also had devastating damage in the area of the Romans ensemble. The houses burned out completely. In addition to the two late-Gothic vaults of the houses “Romans” and “Golden Swan”, however, a large part of the massive facades of the houses “Old Limpurg”, “Romans” (here, however, the upper gable was completely lost) and “Lion Stone” remained largely intact, During the reconstruction of the Frankfurt city center the Romans was rebuilt in the years 1951-53, one of the outstanding tasks in the field of conservation. While the interior design of the buildings was largely in the 1950s style, the façades of the three stepped gable houses were prepared using parts of the overlying substance.
Remarkable is also the handling of the post-war period with the two destroyed, once important historical half-timbered houses “Woman Stone” and “Salt House”. The new building built in the early 1950s as a gabled double house arouses associations with the half-timbered construction of the lost predecessor buildings and at the same time self-confidently displays the modern construction method thanks to its slender grid of reinforced concrete construction. Although the mosaic decor of the wall panels certainly cannot and should not be an adequate substitute for the magnificent facades of the historic buildings, the twin dwelling represents an independent achievement within the reconstruction planning after the war. It holds commemorative values and yet creates something new. From the historically disguised ground floor zone rises the visible reinforced concrete structure on the upper floor. Their system merges with the monumental mural by Wilhelm Geissler “Phoenix from the ashes” facing Paulsplatz to the central Frankfurt memorial to commemorate the destruction of war and reconstruction.
The decision in the context of the recent refurbishment of a color scheme, which is based on the appearance of the Romans at the time of its restoration in 1951-53, had design consequences especially for the field of building sculpture. In addition to extensive restoration work on the tracery parapet of the balcony, the coats of arms and imperial statutes, which had been heavily colored in 1975, had to be gently cleaned and, as in 1952/53, painted in natural stone. Subsequently, the figures were given back their former gilding in the field of insignia and “precious metal” accessories. The ornamental gilding of natural stone reflects an aesthetic conception of the post-war period, as it still shows, for example, in numerous commercial buildings on Roman Mountain and in Braubach Street.
The Romans has always been adapted to the exterior taste of the time, as the multiple transformations since 1900 impressively demonstrate. The design of the façade, which has now been completed, certainly reflects today’s aesthetic conceptions; At the same time, as an approach to the design of the early 1950s, it honors the achievements of post-World War II reconstruction.
Dr. Stefan Timpe
Monument Office of the City of Frankfurt am Main
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