Michael Gnehm

⚫︎ MICHAEL GNEHM is a research associate at the Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Mendrisio. He received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Zurich in 2004 with the book Mute Poetry on language in Gottfried Semper, and his habilitation (second book) in History of Art and Architecture from ETH Zurich in 2010 with the book Allegories of Architecture on literary aspects of architectural descriptions. ⚫︎ Since then, he lectures in the HISTORY and THEORY of ARCHITECTURE at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. In 2006, Michael Gnehm was awarded the Prix Jubilé of the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences for an article on the first German translation of Vitruvius in the 16th century. Since 2017, he is co-editor of the critical and commented edition of Gottfried Semper’s Style. ⚫︎ In his TEACHING and RESEARCH, he focuses on architectural positions from the 19th to the 21st centuries against the backdrop of the relationship between history and the present. ⚫︎ Recent PUBLICATIONS (list with PDFs) include Gottfried Semper’s London Writings (gta 2021), “A Spiraling History of Architecture” in historicism (Routledge 2020), and two chapters in Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture (Bloomsbury 2020).

Gottfried Semper: Style. Digital Edition, 2017–24