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Developments in design methodology
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ISBN: 0471102482 Year: 1984 Publisher: Chichester : John Wiley,


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Theorieën van het architektronies ontwerpen : een historiese dokumentatie.
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ISBN: 9061682169 Year: 1984 Publisher: Nijmegen SUN


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Gottfried Semper : in search of architecture
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ISBN: 026208144X 0262367971 9780262367974 9780262081443 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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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 Among the previously unpublished manuscripts that conclude the book is material essential to a clear understanding of the ideas developed in Der Stil.Wolfgang Herrmann has spent most of his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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L'Architecture, les aventures spatiales de la raison
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ISBN: 285850220X 9782858502202 Year: 1984 Volume: 4

Architects and firms : a sociological perspective on architectural practice
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ISBN: 0262022095 0262521288 9780262521284 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT press,


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Architecture in an age of scepticism
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ISBN: 0434910708 9780434910700 Year: 1984 Publisher: London Heinemann

Das Abenteuer der Ideen : Architektur und Philosophie seit der industriellen Revolution.
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ISBN: 3887251571 Year: 1984 Publisher: Berlin Frölich & Kaufmann


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Dorisch, Jonisch, Korinthisch : Studien über den Gebrauch der Säulenordnungen in der Architektur des 16.-18. Jahrhunderts
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ISBN: 3528086998 3322842509 Year: 1984 Publisher: Braunschweig Vieweg


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Le Corbusiers "Charta von Athen": Texte und Dokumente
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ISBN: 3528087560 Year: 1984 Publisher: Braunschweig Vieweg

Morality and architecture ; the development of a theme in architectural history and theory from the Gothic Revival to the Modern Movement.
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ISBN: 0226874877 Year: 1984 Publisher: Chicago The University of Chicago Press

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