Gottfried Semper

Details

Nationality

German

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

ObservationReason

Subject

Human centred

Degree of codification

Pattern based

Mode of transmission

Text drawingApprenticeship

Knowledge type

Relational embodied

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] German architect and theorist whose The Four Elements of Architecture (1851) and Der Stil (1860–63) derived building from the crafts of hearth, roof, enclosure and mound, founding a material-anthropological tradition that runs through Frampton's tectonics.

Connections

• influenced Louis Sullivan
• influenced Kenneth Frampton
• authored Die vier Elemente der Baukunst
• authored Der Stil in den technischen und tektonischen Künsten
• proposed Four Elements of Architecture
• proposed Bekleidung (Dressing/Cladding)

Referenced by

• Eugène Viollet-le-Duc associated with
• Alois Riegl critiqued

Sources

1. Gottfried Semper. The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
2. Harry Francis Mallgrave. Gottfried Semper: Architect of the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press, 1996.
3. The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings. n.d.. https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/arts-theatre-culture/architecture/four-elements-architecture-and-other-writings.