Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Ornament : the politics of architecture and subjectivity / Antoine Picon ; Miriam Swift, project editor ; Calver Lezama, assistant editor.

By: Contributor(s): Series: AD primersPublisher: Chichester, [England] : Wiley, 2013Description: 171 pages : illustrations, photographsContent type:
  • text
ISBN:
  • 9781118587539
  • 9781118658321
  • 9781118588239
  • 9781118588246
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ornament : the politics of architecture and subjectivity.
Contents:
Introduction: Architecture as Ornament?; References; Chapter 1: A Problematic Return; The Ornamental Revival in Contemporary Architecture; Textures, Patterns and Topology: A Different Ornament; The Subjective and the Political; References; Chapter 2: Ornament and Subjectivity; The Visage of Architecture; The Architect, between Rules and Invention; Artists, Craftsmen and the Fabrication of Ornament; From Clients to Passers-By; Industrialisation and the Ornamental Impulse; The Ghost of Ornament; References; Chapter 3: Politics of OrnamentFrom Economics to Politics; Communication and Style; The Power of Architectural Décor; References; Chapter 4: Reinventing the Meaning of Ornament; A New Architectural Subject; Political Uncertainties; Meaning and Symbols
Summary: Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a 'crime' by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubt that these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable from innovations in computer technology. The proliferation of developments in design software has enabled architects to experiment afresh with texture, colour, pattern and topology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Architecture as Ornament?; References; Chapter 1: A Problematic Return; The Ornamental Revival in Contemporary Architecture; Textures, Patterns and Topology: A Different Ornament; The Subjective and the Political; References; Chapter 2: Ornament and Subjectivity; The Visage of Architecture; The Architect, between Rules and Invention; Artists, Craftsmen and the Fabrication of Ornament; From Clients to Passers-By; Industrialisation and the Ornamental Impulse; The Ghost of Ornament; References; Chapter 3: Politics of OrnamentFrom Economics to Politics; Communication and Style; The Power of Architectural Décor; References; Chapter 4: Reinventing the Meaning of Ornament; A New Architectural Subject; Political Uncertainties; Meaning and Symbols

Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a 'crime' by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubt that these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable from innovations in computer technology. The proliferation of developments in design software has enabled architects to experiment afresh with texture, colour, pattern and topology.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.