An old-school history painter, didactic and inescapably moral, he works on a grand scale in lead, sand, gold leaf, copper wire, broken ceramics, straw, wood and even diamonds, his ideas informed by, among many other subjects, the Holocaust, Egyptian mythology, the architecture of Albert Speer, German Romanticism and the poems of Paul Celan.
The architecture of the German electricity market is flawed by the poor linkage of various energy policy goals.
Modern architecture, he wrote in "Architecture as Symbol: Elements of German Modern Architecture," should not "create an image of practicality, but respond to people's genuine needs, including such concerns as sentimentality and comfort".
"In Corisco Island, for example, there are Spanish missionary ruins, French architecture and bottles of German gin from the 1800s untouched on the sand," Scafidi said.
Construction of the villas, which often feature charming stone facades and stairwells, flourished from 1860 to World War I and embody the Neo-Renaissance style of German architecture, said Nadine Zimmerli, a Dresden historian now teaching at the College of William and Mary, in Virginia.
The scope of German architecture is so extraordinary you could make an entire trip based solely on the subject.
For a glimpse of the future of German architecture, head to Potsdamer Platz, Leipziger Platz and the government area north of the Reichstag in Berlin, which are all glitzy swathes of glass, concrete and chrome.
One feature of Strasbourg and of German Rayonnant architecture in general was the application of tracery to spires at Freiburg im Breisgau (spire begun c. 1330), for example, and the spire of Strasbourg that was begun about 1399.
Designed by architect Fritz Höger, the 1924 building is a leading example of German Expressionist architecture.
Whewell's own work on the history of German Gothic church architecture has been touched on within the context of the history of architecture.
