The urban planning remnants of Karl Friedrich Schinkel's student - architect and researcher of ancient art - Gustav Eduard Schaubert (1804-1860), which were discovered in Athens in 1989 and refer to the design of Athens and Piraeus at the beginning of the Otto period, constitute an unexpected find for the research of the urban planning history of modern Athens.

The purpose of this study is to critically present all the evidence of Schaubert's remnants, so that they become accessible to future researchers. This new work by Professor Alexandros Papageorgiou-Venetis is a continuation and completion of his monograph Hauptstadt Athen? ein Stadtgedanke des Klassizismus [Athens Capital: a Vision of Classicism], Muenchen, 1994.

The archival material analyzed here concerns a complete set of drawings and texts from both Schaubert himself and from other sources, which were kept in his collection and were believed to have been lost during World War II. In reality, these documents had arrived in Athens in 1958 through adventurous means, where they remained unpublished for thirty years until their discovery by the author.

This volume serves as a late tribute to the high morals, tireless diligence, and genuine philhellenism of Eduard Schaubert, the inspired architect and urban planner, who, along with his friend and classmate Stamatios Kleanthis, developed the plan for the new capital (1833).

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