Gottfried Semper - London Writings 1850-1855

Gottfried Semper’s years in exile in London (1850–1855) were a time of highly inspir_ational experiences. The London of the first World Expo offered the German archi_tect an immense trove of objects for study and an intellectual surrounding that provided seminal impulses for his innovative cultural-_history_-based theory of archi_tecture. That revolutionary period found not only politics and society in radical upheaval, but also the world of art and science. Internationalization, and indeed glo_balization, of knowledge was thereby a particularly distinctive phenomenon, the most important place of which was the capital of the British Empire.