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Gottfried Semper’s years in exile in London (1850–1855) were a time of highly inspirational experiences. The London of the first World Expo offered the German architect an immense trove of objects for study and an intellectual surrounding which provided the basis for his innovative cultural-history-based theory of architecture. That revolutionary period saw upheavals not only in the realms of politics and society, but also art and science. Globalization of knowledge was thereby a particularly distinctive phenomenon, especially in the capital of the British Empire. The texts extend beyond a focus on Semper as an individual to consider his work in designing, teaching and writing architecture based on his historical, architectural and disciplinary surroundings.

Architecture --- History --- Semper, Gottfried, --- 72.07 --- 72.01 --- Semper, Gottfried 1803-1879 (°Altona, Hamburg, Duitsland) --- Architectuurtheorie ; 19de eeuw ; Gottfried Semper --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Architectuurtheorie --- Design and construction --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Exile. --- Semper, Gottfried --- Architectuur (theorie) --- Architecture, Primitive

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Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) left behind a voluminous legacy of architectural-theory writings. The manner, in his works, in which he analysed architecture from a cultural-historical perspective as the key discipline in human artistry continues to exert a deep fascination up until today. The London Writings make available previously unpublished or little-known texts originating during Semper's exile in London (1850-1855) in a critical and commented edition, including in their original wordings. Swayed by his impressions of the first Great Exhibition of 1851 and as a lecturer at the Department of Practical Art, it was in London that Semper laid the foundations for his theoretical magnum opus "Der Stil" (Style, 1860/63). He counterpoised the phenomena of the globalised flow of merchandise and a globalisation of knowledge that he observed with his thoughts on the global development of architectural culture in all its manifold material, social and political conditions. The edition is the outcome of a joint SNSF research project between the Institute for History and Theory of Art and Architecture (ISA) at the Università della Svizzera italiana and the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich.

Architecture --- Architecture, Modern --- 72.07 --- 72.01 --- Semper, Gottfried 1803-1879 (°Altona, Hamburg, Duitsland) --- Architectuurtheorie ; 19de eeuw ; Gottfried Semper --- Philosophy --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- History

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Architectes --- Semper, Gottfried, --- Architecture --- Architectural design --- Semper, Gottfried