Gottfried Semper and the profound surface of architecture

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dc.contributor.advisorGammard, Elysabethen_US
dc.creatorSpelman, Elizabeth Roween_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:33:20Zen_US
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:33:20Zen_US
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.description.abstractGottfried Semper argues for a return to the surface of architecture. In response to the aesthetic crisis brought on by the integration of industry and art, he sought a new source for principles with which to guide architectural invention. By looking to man's own productions, Semper creates a kosmos for architecture, one that both describes the primal forms out of which all art and industry arise and that outlines the way in which those forms transform over time. Semper believed that all cultural productions, both physical and conceptual, arose out of the Volk. Architecture's role is to express the social structure monumentally, just as government expresses it in its political institutions. Architecture does that symbolically through its Bekleidung, the cladding. In the making and ordering of architecture, the culture itself is ordered.en_US
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.en_US
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 1997 SPELMANen_US
dc.identifier.citationSpelman, Elizabeth Rowe. "Gottfried Semper and the profound surface of architecture." (1997) Master’s Thesis, Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17131">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/17131</a>.en_US
dc.identifier.digitalRICE2659en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17131en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
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dc.subjectArchitectureen_US
dc.titleGottfried Semper and the profound surface of architectureen_US
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitectureen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelMastersen_US
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architectureen_US
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