O R G A N I Z A T I O N
F O U N D I N G M E M B E R S
Prof. Dr. Rand Carter
Prof. Dr. Kurt W. Forster
PA T R O N SThe Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg
B O A R D M E M B E R S
William H. Bates III, Architect - William H. Bates III, Residential Architecture (Charleston, South Carolina and New York City, USA). Previously with Fairfax and Sammons Architects, P.C. New York City, Mr. Bates practices architecture and design primarily in New York City and in the south eastern regions of the USA. He is full professor at The American College of the Building Arts in Charleston, South Carolina where he lectures on aesthetics and classical drawing principles. He was previously adjunct professor at University of Miami School of Architecture and 2001 Summer Studio Design Professor for the Institute of Classical Architecture (ICA & CA), NY, NY, where he remains an active Fellow. While at the ICA, he developed the Edward Vason Jones Biennial Rome Scholarship, in memory of his mentor. Mr. Bates is a specialist in American Furniture and Decorative Arts 1800-1840, style and construction methods, restoration and conservation. His formal education includes a Masters of Architecture from the University of Miami School of Architecture at Coral Gables, Florida and Rome, Italy, and a Bachelors of Interior Design from Auburn University School of Architecture. Exhibitions and publications include: the 'Institute of Classical Architecture Tenth Anniversary Exhibition'; A Decade of Art and Architecture -a survey of recent work by 100 Architects, Artists and Artisans, published by The Institute of Classical Architecture, and 'Style and Technology with the Scales of Proportion: The Furniture and Interiors of Karl Friedrich Schinkel' (in) The Time of Schinkel and the Age of Neoclassicism between Berlin and Palermo.Prof. Dr. Rand Carter is Professor of the History of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, and a founding FOS Board Member. He received his education at Columbia University, Princeton University and the Courtauld Institute of the University of London. Publications include: Grove Dictionary of Art: (entries on Peter Christian Beuth, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Kings Friedrich Wilhelm III and Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia, Emperors of Germany and Kings of Prussia, Wilhelm I, Friedrich III and Wilhelm III, Empresses of Germany and Queens of Prussia Augustus and Victoria). Other publications include: “Die Ausbildung der jungen Architektengeneration in der 30er Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts in Europa” in Mythos Bauakademie, 1997. "Ludwig Persius and the Romantic Landscape of Potsdam", Arquitectonica, October-1989; "Karl Friedrich Schinkel, the Last Great Architect", biographical essay in the outstanding 1981 facsimile edition of Karl Friedrich Schinkels Sammlung architectonischer Entwürfe; "Karl Friedrich Schinkel's Project for a Royal Palace on the Acropolis", Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1979. Recent publications include "Ralph Adams Cram and the Architecture of Utica's First Presbyterian Church", in Landmarks Society of Greater Utica Quarterly, Winter 1999, as well as three guide books in the series, Historic Utica: Four Walking Tours Within the Scenic and Historic District, 1997; Forest Hill Cemetery, 1998; and a Guide to the City’s Outdoor Sculpture. He is currently preparing a book for publication, entitled, The Royal Palaces of the Prussian Princes in Potsdam.
Prof. Jean-Francois Lejeune—Belgian-born architect and urbanist--is Associate Professor of architecture and urban history at the University of Miami School of Architecture (Coral Gables, Florida), where he gives seminar courses on Karl Friedrich Schinkel. His research has dealt with various aspects of the history of cities from Schinkel’s urban projects in Berlin to Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier in Havana (1920s). He has published in Rassegna, the Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, and Stadtbauwelt. His books include: Miami Architecture of the Tropics (Princeton University Press, 1992); THE NEW CITY: Foundations (1991), which included a new illustrated translation of the Laws of the Indies, The New City: The American City (1994); THE NEW CITY: Modern Cities (1996) and, The Making of Miami Beach 1933-1942: The Architecture of Lawrence Murray Dixon (Rizzoli, 2000). He curated exhibitions in Brussels (Miami, Architecture of the Tropics, 1991), Miami (Cities of the Caribbean, 1994, and again in Brussels in June 2000 (with Maurice Culot), Dynamic City at CIVA (Centre International pour la Ville, Brussels, l’Architecture et le Paysage). Again for the CIVA, he curated a large exhibition dedicated to Latin America, titled ‘Les Ameriques: villes et paysages entre réve et réalité’. In January 2005, the exhibition catalogue was published by Princeton University Press with the title, Cruelty and Utopia. In Istanbul (July 2005), Prof. Lejeune 's Cruelty and Utopia received the "Julius Posener Award for an Exhibition Catalogue".
Prof. Ivor Richards (RIBA) is Head of the Dept. of Architecture at the University of New Castle, New-Castle-upon-Tyne, UK. As practicing architect, he worked on a number of projects with Sir Leslie Martin, including the Law Library at Oxford, and the Edinburgh Museum. On his own, he designed the Music Auditorium at Cambridge University, and a series of influential courtyard houses in Cambridge (UK). In 2003, he founded a private practice, 'Ivor Richards Architects, International', Cambridge, UK.
Richard Röhrbein -Dipl. Ing. In 1990, Herr Röhrbein was appointed to the prestigious position of Potsdam's Director of City Planning. Under his dedicated and discerning direction, Potsdam was transformed from a garrison town to a 'Modern' city. Röhrbein studied architecture at the Technical University in Berlin, where he received a master's degree in architecture 1. Staatsexamen (1966); he then worked in various architectural offices in Berlin, including the GEHAG, at which, prior to 1933, Bruno Taut practiced. In 1970, Herr Röhrbein took a 2. Staatsexamen to become a town planning official. From 1970-76, he was Director of the Structural Planning Department in the office of city-planning in Lübeck; and from 1976-1987, he was Department Head for town-planning in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. From 1987-1990, he was the Director of Construction Preparation and Building Design in Berlin's Senate Ministry for Construction Engineering. In 1990, he was delegated to Potsdam's municipal council, Department for City Development, Commerce and Trade; in 1992, he was appointed Director of the Potsdam City Development Bureau. Among his most recent publications is (in): Italienische Turmvillen in Potsdam. Berlin: J. Strauss. In fall 2002, Röhrbein traveled to Bucharest, Romania to serve as a guest expert and consultant in city-planning for several months. In addition, he has formed a partnership with the Department of Architecture in Venice--Istituto Universitario di Architecttura di Venezia (IUAV). He has lectured and has town-planning contacts in Seoul - South Korea. Herr Röhrbein was professor for many years at the the TFH Technische Fachhochschule Berlin. At present, he is actively engaged in lecturing and publishing about town planning and architecture.
A F F I L I A T E O R G A N I Z A T I O N S
Karl Friedrich Schinkel Gesellschaft e. V.
Internationale Bauakademie BerlinAIV - Architekten und Ingenieur-Verein Berlin
Annual Schinkel Wettbewerb (competition).
Förderverein Bauakademie
(Organization for the re-building of Schinkel's Bauakademie, Berlin)Stiftung Preussische Schlösser und Gärten Berlin-Brandenburg
Verband Deutscher Architekten- und Ingenieurvereine e.V. (DAI)
E X E C U T I V E D I R E C T O R
Susan M. Peik, Executive Director, Friends of Schinkel, was educated at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura, Venice, Italy. She has lived in Canada, the USA, Germany, Sweden, and Italy, and has lectured and published papers on the subject of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. Her current research interests—to be published in book format—are Schinkel's Schweizerhaus on the Pfaueninsel: The Reception of the Swiss Style in the Mark Brandenburg and Schinkel's critique of Baroque architecture. She is editor of the Schinkel 2000 (FOS Triennial I) conference proceedings, published as Karl Friedrich Schinkel: Aspects of his Work / Aspekte seines Werkes (Stuttgart / London: Edtion Axel Menges, 2002), and editor of the Friends of Schinkel Triennial series. Other areas of interest include: the architecture of Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America. In addition to activities related to architecture, she serves on the Board of Advisors for the Angel Orensanz Foundation, NYC.
