“…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. …”

“…Using key texts by the German architect and theorist Gottfried Semper, Mari Hvattum offers a reinterpretation of historicism, viewed as a philosophical outlook as well as an architectural problem. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Con I principi formali dell'ornamento e il suo significato come simbolo artistico / Gottfried Semper. - Tít. original: Über die formelle Gesetzmassigkeit des Schmuckes und dessen Bedeutung als Kunstsymbol, Meyer & Zeller, Zürich, 1856…”