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

Connections

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

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.