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Author : Brent C. Brolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393730468
Embellishment is a basic human need. Why was it banished from modern architecture?
Author : Margaret Maliszewski-Pickart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 0786443359
For architects, historians, preservationists, students or homeowners, this richly illustrated two-part dictionary makes it easy to identify a specific architectural detail. This work allows you to visually identify a particular building element in a series of illustrations. Once the visual identification is made, the name of the term is given, making it simple to look up in the traditional architectural dictionary section of the book. The illustrations are arranged by main categories with common labels--windows and doors; walls; roofs; columns; stairs; ornament and moldings; and arches, vaults and domes. This broad range of architectural illustrations allows the work to function not only as a traditional architectural dictionary, but also as a design source or as an overview of architectural ornament and detailing.
Author : Ben Pell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034612166
Ornament is currently acquiring a renewed status in architecture. As contemporary technologies of design and fabrication introduce unprecedented opportunities to intertwine the constructive logics and expressive articulations of buildings, ornament has re-emerged as a means to explore the interactions between function and decoration, volume and surface, structure and envelope. This book gives a systematic account of the technologies employed in the production of ornament and the strategies of its application today, examining a range of international built examples. Architects with particularly advanced approaches to the question of ornament contribute reports and reflections on their experiences: Sam Jacob of Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT), London; Andreas Hild of Hild und K Architekten, Munich; and Alejandro Zaera-Polo of Foreign Office Architects (FOA), London.
Author : Dominique Clévenot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Decoration and ornament, Architectural
ISBN : 0500343322
Surface decoration has always played a fundamental role in Islamic architecture. As human representation is forbidden in Islamic religious monuments, designers employed mosaics, stucco, brickwork and ceramics, and the vigorous use of brilliant colour to reach unparalleled heights of expression. It is this ornamental dimension of Islamic architecture that is explored in this magnificent volume. Rather than limiting itself to an exclusively historical or chronological perspective, Ornament and Decoration in Islamic Architecture presents four successive approaches to its subject. The first part offers an overview of Islamic architecture, discussing the great diversity it contains. Dealing exclusively with techniques, the second part considers the materials most often used as well as the expertise of the builders and Muslim decorative artists, and the third part explores themes in Islamic ornamentation. Section four discusses aesthetics, and studies the relationship between the buildings - the structures or their architectonic components - and their ornamental coverings. Each of these topics is presented through a number of outstanding examples and then through comparable monuments from all over the Islamic world. For anyone in thrall to such great wonders as the Taj Mahal and the Alhambra, and for everyone interested in the world of Islam, this lavish publication will be indispensable
Author : Antoine Picon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118588246
Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a‘crime’ by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacularreturn in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the worksof well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, SauerbruchHutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubtthat these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable frominnovations in computer technology. The proliferation ofdevelopments in design software has enabled architects toexperiment afresh with texture, colour, pattern and topology. Though inextricably linked with digital tools and culture, AntoinePicon argues that some significant traits in ornament persist fromearlier Western architectural traditions. These he defines as the‘subjective’ – the human interaction thatornament requires in both its production and its reception –and the political. Contrary to the message conveyed by the foundingfathers of modern architecture, traditional ornament was not meantonly for pleasure. It conveyed vital information about thedesignation of buildings as well as about the rank of their owners.As such, it participated in the expression of social values,hierarchies and order. By bringing previous traditions in ornamentunder scrutiny, Picon makes us question the political issues atstake in today’s ornamental revival. What does it tell usabout present-day culture? Why are we presently so fearful ofmeaning in architecture? Could it be that by steering so vehementlyaway from symbolism, contemporary architecture is evading anyexplicit contribution to collective values?
Author : Eugène Rouyer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780486141275
Take a visual tour through salons, war rooms, and ballrooms in this illustrated survey, with decorative elements from doors, walls, fireplaces, cabinets, consoles, and friezes. 61 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.
Author : Dr Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472418982
In the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace (1851), some architects, engineers, manufacturers and theorists believed that the fusion of iron and ornament would reconcile art and technology and create a new, modern architectural language. This book studies the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation, and the contexts in which it flourished. As such, it offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture.
Author : Farshid Moussavi
Publisher : Actarbirkhauser
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1940291690
A graphic guide to ornaments of 20th century building envelopes.
Author : Kent Bloomer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393730360
Yet during the twentieth century, ornament was scorned (Adolf Loos famously called it "crime") and its study all but eliminated from art and architecture curricula. What happened - and must we live with the result? Is ornament dead?".
Author : James Ward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Architecture
ISBN : NYPL:33433082115266
Author : Paloma Pajares-Ayuela
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Medieval
ISBN : 050051075X
The volume provides a revealing look at the state of building in Rome after the fall of the Empire; an analysis of the symbolic meaning behind the quincunx – the quintessential Cosmatesque design; a comparison of different Cosmatesque sites; and a close examination of the pavement of the Schola Cantorum in the church of San Clemente, Rome. Art historians, designers, architects, mosaicists, archaeologists and all craftsmen who delight in ornament will want to keep this book to hand as an invaluable addition to both their personal and professional libraries.
Author : Albert Hill,Matt Gibberd
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0714874167
An unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present day Ornament Is Crime is a celebration and a thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architecture. The book proposes that modernism need no longer be confined by traditional definitions, and can be seen in both the iconic works of the modernist canon by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, as well as in the work of some of the best contemporary architects of the twenty-first century. This book is a visual manifesto and a celebration of the most important architectural movement in modern history.
Author : Gülru Necipoğlu,Alina Payne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780691167282
This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates its global resurgence today. Organized by thematic sections on the significance, influence, and role of ornament, the book addresses ornament's current revival in architecture, its historiography and theories, its transcontinental mobility in medieval and early modern Europe and the Middle East, and its place in the context of industrialization and modernism. Throughout, Histories of Ornament emphasizes the portability and politics of ornament, figuration versus abstraction, cross-cultural dialogues, and the constant negotiation of local and global traditions. Featuring original essays by more than two dozen scholars from around the world, this authoritative and wide-ranging book provides an indispensable reference on the histories of ornament in a global context. Contributors include: Michele Bacci (Fribourg University); Anna Contadini (University of London); Thomas B. F. Cummins (Harvard); Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest); Daniela del Pesco (Universita degli Studi Roma Tre); Vittoria Di Palma (USC); Anne Dunlop (University of Melbourne); Marzia Faietti (University of Bologna); María Judith Feliciano (independent scholar); Finbarr Barry Flood (NYU); Jonathan Hay (NYU); Christopher P. Heuer (Clark Art); Rémi Labrusse (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre la Défense); Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard); Marco Rosario Nobile (University of Palermo); Oya Pancaroğlu (Bosphorus University); Spyros Papapetros (Princeton); Alina Payne (Harvard); Antoine Picon (Harvard); David Pullins (Harvard); Jennifer L. Roberts (Harvard); David J. Roxburgh (Harvard); Hashim Sarkis (MIT); Robin Schuldenfrei (Courtauld); Avinoam Shalem (Columbia); and Gerhard Wolf (KHI, Florence).
Author : Mary L. Myers,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architectural drawing
ISBN : 9780870996252
Author : Evan Blum,Leslie Blum
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : PSU:000031981941
The first guide to decorating with architectural details--from stone gargoyles and wrought-iron work to colorful terra-cotta tiles--items often found in salvage yards, demolition sites, or estate auctions. This practical handbook teaches how to evaluate, buy, and install these fabulous artifacts. 150 full-color photos. 25 illustrations.