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Author : Wolfgang Herrmann
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 026208144X
Herrmann traces his life, analyzes his writings, including his major work, Der Stil, and presents translations of recently uncovered texts.
Author : Harry Francis Mallgrave
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300066244
Biografie van de Duitse architect en architectuurtheoreticus (1803-1879)
Author : Gottfried Semper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521180864
Gottfied Semper was the most important German theorist of the nineteenth century. From his first published essay on Greek polychromy in 1834 to his final lecture on the origin of architectural styles in 1869, Semper persistently endeavoured to fashion a comprehensive architectural theory explaining the meaning and transformational nature of architectural form. The breadth and richness of his ideas, both applauded and opposed at the turn of the twentieth century, proved enormously influential in the development of modern theory. Originally published in 1989, this book provides an English translation of a number of Semper's published writings. The introduction seeks to trace the course of Semper's theoretical development over thirty-five years. Semper's ideas, like those of his contemporaries, John Ruskin and Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, had enormous influence on the genesis of modern architectural theory and will appeal to both architectural historians and architects.
Author : Gottfried Semper
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0892365978
The enduring influence of the architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) derives primarily from his monumental theoretical foray Der Stil in der technischen und tektonischen Künsten (1860-62), here translated into English for the first time. A richly illustrated survey of the technical arts (textiles, ceramics, carpentry, masonry), Semper's analysis of the preconditions of style forever changed the interpretative context for aesthetics, architecture, and art history. Style, Semper believed, should be governed by historical function, cultural affinities, creative free will, and the innate properties of each medium. Thus, in an ambitious attempt to turn nineteenth-century artistic discussion away from historicism, aestheticism, and materialism, Semper developed in Der Stil a complex picture of stylistic change based on scrutiny of specific objects and a remarkable grasp of cultural variety. Harry Francis Mallgrave's introductory essay offers an account of Semper's life and work, a survey of Der Stil, and a fresh consideration of Semper's landmark study and its lasting significance.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:636846954
Author : Sonja Hildebrand,Michael Gnehm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3856764097
Author : Elena Chestnova
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000594089
Material Theories takes a radically new approach to well-established thinking on nineteenth-century architecture and design by investigating Gottfried Semper’s classic ideas about dressing, metamorphosis of material, and cultural development, culminating in his two-volume publication Style. This book demonstrates how Semper’s theories crystallised among his encounters with material things of the late 1840s and early 1850s. It examines several discursive frameworks and phenomena which shaped the attitude to artefacts in Europe in the mid-nineteenth century, and which were specifically pertinent to Semper’s evolution: archaeology and antiquarianism, the domestic interior, print media, collections, and the embodied relationship between the designer and their work. For the first time, this book examines the construction of a design theory not only as an intellectual endeavour but also as a process of confrontation with material things. It employs recent approaches to material culture, in particular Thing Theory, in order to show that Semper’s artefact references constituted his ideas, rather than simply giving impetus to them. It will be an important investigation for academics and researchers interested in interior design history, as well as scholars of material culture and history of design theory.
Author : Mikesch Muecke
Publisher : Obvious Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683150538
In the past Gottfried Semper (1803-1873) has been framed as a significant theoretician but not an important architect. Few scholars have until now examined the resonances between his writings and his built works. This scholarly text explores the consequences of thinking architectural production as the intersection of theory and practice in six of Semper's little known works that he created during his tenure in Zurich, Switzerland, between 1854 and 1871.This book has three objectives: the first is to retrace the tentative seams that link Semper's built and written works, and in this process challenge the still pervasive assumption that the architect's buildings have little to do with his important theoretical and historical texts. The second objective is to construct a detailed analysis of Semper's lesser known works, with the intent to map a constellation of his theoretical and practical tactics. The third objective is to show how these means of production may inform a different practice of writing and building that considers the expanded, interdisciplinary role architecture can play in the twenty-first century. From this perspective Semper's hybrid work-advanced via the roles of influential writer, teacher, and designer-holds the potential to undermine the entrenched lines of division between disciplines at the same time that it promotes new linkages between design and building for contemporary practice.
Author : Mikesch W. Muecke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1411633911
Until now Gottfried Semper (1803-1873) has been framed as an important theoretician but a merely historicist architect. With a few exception no scholar has so far analyzed the resonance between his writings and his built works. Rather than limit himself to a historical analysis of either, the author explores in this text the consequences of thinking architectural production as the convergence of writing and building in six of Semper's lesser known works, developed during his tenure in Zurich, Switzerland, between 1854 and 1871.
Author : Elena Chestnova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3856764240
Author : Ákos Moravánszky
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783035608069
Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are "constructed", how they become cultural substances. Metamorphism investigates the complex relationship between natural materials and technology, science and sensuality. Gottfried Semper (1803–1879) made the notion of Stoffwechsel the key element of his theory. With this concept he intended to explain how a structural form originally bound to a method of processing is transferred from one material to another, liberated from its original function. For the first time, the book investigates the subject from a historic point of view whilst reflecting on current interdisciplinary research. Examples from Aalto to Zumthor illustrate the specific aspects of historic and contemporary material concepts.
Author : Heinrich Hubsch
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780892361991
Hubsch's argument that the technical progress and changed living habits of the nineteenth century rendered neoclassical principles antiquated is presented here along with responses to his essay by architects, historians, and critics over two decades.
Author : Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351981392
Time, History and Architecture presents a series of essays on critical historiography, each addressing a different topic, to elucidate the importance of two influential figures Walter Benjamin and Gottfried Semper for architectural history. In a work exploring themes such as time, autonomy and periodization, author Gevork Hartoonian unpacks the formation of architectural history; the problem of autonomy in criticism and the historiographic narrative. Considering the scope of criticism informing the contemporaneity of architecture, the book explores the concept of nonsimultaneity, and introduces retrospective criticism the agent of critical historiography. An engaging thematic dialogue for academics and upper-level graduate students interested in architectural history and theory, this book aims to deconstruct the certainties of historicism and to raise new questions and interpretations from established critical canons.
Author : Charles L. Davis
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780822986638
Winner, 2021 CAAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Winner, 2021 On the Brinck Book Award Shortlist, 2020 MSA First Book Prize In the nineteenth-century paradigm of architectural organicism, the notion that buildings possessed character provided architects with a lens for relating the buildings they designed to the populations they served. Advances in scientific race theory enabled designers to think of “race” and “style” as manifestations of natural law: just as biological processes seemed to inherently regulate the racial characters that made humans a perfect fit for their geographical contexts, architectural characters became a rational product of design. Parallels between racial and architectural characters provided a rationalist model of design that fashioned some of the most influential national building styles of the past, from the pioneering concepts of French structural rationalism and German tectonic theory to the nationalist associations of the Chicago Style, the Prairie Style, and the International Style. In Building Character, Charles Davis traces the racial charge of the architectural writings of five modern theorists—Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, and William Lescaze—to highlight the social, political, and historical significance of the spatial, structural, and ornamental elements of modern architectural styles.
Author : Gevork Hartoonian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134172092
Looking back over the twentieth century, Hartoonian discusses the work of three major architects: Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry and Bernard Tschumi, in reference to their theoretical positions and historicizes present architecture in the context of the ongoing secularization of the myths surrounding the traditions of nineteenth century architecture in general, and, in particular, Gottfried Semper's discourse on the tectonic. Providing a valuable contribution to the current debates surrounding architectural history and theory, this passionately written book makes valuable reading for any architect.