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100 1 Herrmann, Wolfgang,|d1899-1995.|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n84095863
245 10 Gottfried Semper :|bin search of architecture /|cWolfgang
Herrmann.
264 1 Cambridge, Mass. :|bMIT Press,|c[1984]
264 4 |c©1984
300 1 online resource (xxii, 320 pages :|billustrations
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500 Includes indexes.
500 Translated by the author.
520 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unpublished manuscripts that conclude the book is material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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600 10 Semper, Gottfried,|d1803-1879.|0https://id.loc.gov/
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651 7 Germany.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1210272
653 ARCHITECTURE/Architectural History/Modern Architecture
655 7 Biographies.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1919896
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