Abstract: International audience; Over recent decades various studies have permitted a reassessment of the role of textile metaphors and analogies in the development of architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1930s. This historiographic renewal, which relates to the considerable expansion of creative use of textiles in contemporary architecture, is part of the current revival of interest in ornament and has notably benefited from various analyses of the writings of Gottfried Semper, published in the wake of their translation for non-German-sp...
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