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During his life, the German architect, scholar and political revolutionary, Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) experienced early fame, political exile from his homeland, international prominence, and seeing European architecture transformed by his influential body of ideas. In this biography Harry Mallgrave presents an account of the life, buildings and writings of the man he describes as a colossus of the 19th century. Mallgrave weaves a saga of Semper's youth, his fascination with the July Revolution in France, and his voyage to a Greece wracked by civil war. He speaks of Semper's design for the Dresden Hoftheater in the mid-1830s, his influence on Richard Wagner, and his plummeting fortunes after the political unrest of 1848-1849. Mallgrave traces Semper's literary resurrection that culminated with the publication of his book on style ; he follows his artistic resurrection with a practice in Zurich and Vienna. By the time of his design for the second Dresden Hoftheater in the 1870s, Semper was without architectural peer in the German-speaking countries and his ideas had pushed European architecture to the brink of modernism.

Architects --- -Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 (°Hamburg). --- Architectuur ; Duitsland ; 19de eeuw ; Gottfried Semper --- 72.07 --- (430) --- Professional employees --- Biography --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- (Duitsland) --- Semper, Gottfried --- Biography. --- Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 (°Hamburg) --- Semper, Gottfried, --- Switzerland --- Semper, Gottfried, - 1803-1879. --- Architects - Switzerland - Biography. --- Wagner, Richard --- Néo-classicisme --- Wagner, Richard, --- Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879 --- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 --- Architecture, Modern

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L'architecte allemand Gottfried Semper (1803-1879), qui construisit l'opéra de Dresde, le Polytechnikum de Zurich et le Burgtheater de Vienne découvrit à partir de 1826 à Paris les collections naturalistes du Jardin des Plantes. Il s'intéressa alors au rapport entre formes végétales et minérales et ornements architecturaux, devenant un fervent défenseur de la "thèse de la polychromie". Il se rendit en Italie puis en Grèce, où il examina trois ans durant (1830-1833) les temples et édifices antiques à la recherche de vestiges de couleur. Dès ses premiers écrits, il bouscula les hiérarchies admises entre architecture et décor, support et revêtement, forme et ornement, et promut une pensée du matériau qui n'était pas l'antithèse mais le corrélat paradoxal d'une pensée de l'immatérialité de la couleur.

Semper, Gottfried, --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Color in architecture --- Art and anthropology --- Décoration et ornement architecturaux --- Couleur en architecture --- Art et anthropologie --- Semper, Gottfried, - 1803-1879 --- Décoration architecturale. --- Couleur en architecture. --- Art et anthropologie.

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Herrmann traces his life, analyzes his writings, including his major work, Der Stil, and presents translations of recently uncovered texts.Preface by Adolf Max Vogt For the generation after Karl Frederich Schinkel, Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) was the most admired architect in Germany. His buildings, such as the opera houses in Dresden and two museums in Vienna, were outstanding examples of their kind. To later generations, however, Semper is known primarily for his writings. Although Semper is arguably the 19th century's most important theoretician, the subtlety of his thought and the difficulty of his German have kept his works from being translated and his contribution from being assessed until now. Herrmann traces his life, analyzes his writings--in particular his major work, Der Stil and presents translations of recently uncovered texts. Der Stil, long a basic source of ideas for architects, had a profound impact on European modernists and proto-modernists alike. H.P. Berlage, Otto Wagner, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius were influenced by it, as were any number of American architects, including Bernard Maybeck and Louis Sullivan. Following the biographical chapters, which clarify the extent to which Semper's strongly held political convictions (he was forced to flee Dresden after the revolution of 1849 failed) informed his ideas about architecture, Herrmann presents the colorful genesis of Der Stil. Through his close reading of the texts, Herrmann brings to light Semper's position on iron, on Gothic and contemporary architecture, on the primitive hut, and on the ideas of the archaeologist Karl B. Cher. Among the previously unpublished manuscripts that conclude the book is material essential to a clear understanding of the ideas developed in Der Stil.Wolfgang Herrmann has spent most of his professional life in England. Political events forced his exile from Germany in 1933. Since then, he has devoted most of his scholarly career to the study of the theory of architecture and has written books on Laugier and Perrault.

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Architecture --- -Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 (° Hamburg, Duitsland) --- Architectuurtheorie ; 19de eeuw ; Gottfried Semper --- Architectuurtraktaten --- 72.01 --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Philosophy --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Design and construction --- Philosophy. --- architects --- Aesthetics of art --- architectural theory --- Semper, Gottfried --- Gottfried Semper 1803-1879 (° Hamburg, Duitsland) --- Semper,Gottfried 1803-1879 (° Hamburg, Duitsland)

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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.Materiality as a subject of systematic architectural critique Analyses of built examples illustrate historical and contemporary approaches Explanation of Semper’s theory of metabolic processes as a theoretical model for architecture.

Construction --- Matériaux --- materials science --- architectural history --- technology --- Materials sciences --- Architecture --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- 691(03) --- Bouwmaterialen --- Architectuur; materialen --- Bouwmaterialen ; naslagwerken --- Bouwmaterialen ; doorheen de architectuurgeschiedenis --- Architectuur ; materialen --- Gevelbekledingen --- Wandbekledingen --- Building materials --- Architectural design --- Matériau --- Morphologie --- Histoire de la construction --- Théorie de l'architecture --- Semper, Gottfried, --- technology [general associated concept] --- Matériaux. --- Building materials. --- Philosophy. --- History. --- Philosophy --- Histoire --- Philosophie --- Influence. --- Semper, Gottfried, 1803-1879 --- Matériaux