Fritz Barth

Fritz Barth, studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and
the ETH in Zurich. He runs an architectural offices in Fellbach and
Berlin, holds the honorary professorship for building design at the
Bauhaus University in Weimar and is the author of a number of
books dealing with architecture and its environment, including a
study on the iconography of 16th century Italian gardens (Die Villa
Lante in Bagnaia, Edition Axel Menges 2001), as well as a detailed
study of the Melnikov House in Moscow (Konstantin Melnikov und
sein Haus/Konstantin Melnikov and his House, Edition Axel Menges
2015).

Achim Ilchmann headed the Analysis and System Theory department
at the Institute of Mathematics at the Technical University of
Ilmenau from 2000 to 2022. His research areas are adaptive control
of (non-linear) systems, the investigation of structural properties of
differential-algebraic systems, and the algebraic treatment of timevarying
linear systems. He regularly held and continues to hold seminars on philosophical problems in mathematics, and he has written three books on Rococo architecture.