Gottfried Semper and the profound surface of architecture

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dc.contributor.advisorGammard, Elysabeth
dc.creatorSpelman, Elizabeth Rowe
dc.date.accessioned2009-06-04T06:33:20Z
dc.date.available2009-06-04T06:33:20Z
dc.date.issued1997
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.
dc.digitization.specificationsThesis was rescanned at 24-bit color in 2020. PDF has been OCR’d and made accessible.
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dc.format.extent93 pp
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS ARCH. 1997 SPELMAN
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>.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/17131
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectArchitecture
dc.titleGottfried Semper and the profound surface of architecture
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thesis.degree.departmentArchitecture
thesis.degree.disciplineArchitecture
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Architecture
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