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Author : Brent C. Brolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393730468
Embellishment is a basic human need. Why was it banished from modern architecture?
Author : Kent Bloomer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Ben Pell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Antoine Picon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Dominique Clévenot
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Albert Hill,Matt Gibberd
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 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 : Margaret Prosser Allen
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Decoration and ornament, Architectural
ISBN : 9780874133998
This work visually presents some of India's great architectural achievements viewed by a Westerner as an art form. Strong black and white photographic details of existing buildings, starting with the second century B.C. stupa at S ch and concluding with the Indo-Muslim architecture of the Moghul period, are presented.
Author : Margaret Maliszewski-Pickart
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 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 : Dr Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Richard Glazier
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0486421481
Exceptionally comprehensive, easy-to-use guide surveys the evolution of historic ornament in architecture and the applied arts-from primitive ornaments of Oceania, Egypt, and Assyria to a Gothic doorway in Amiens, the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, and a classic early-nineteenth-century sofa by Thomas Hope. Hundreds of the author's line illustrations depict designs typical of many periods of style. Unabridged reprint of the 6th edition (1948) of A Manual of Historic Ornament, originally published in 1899 by B. T. Batsford, Ltd., London. Over 700 b/w illustrations. 16 plates of photographs.
Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351562096
Vilified by leading architectural modernists and Victorian critics alike, mass-produced architectural ornament in iron has received little sustained study since the 1960s; yet it proliferated in Britain in the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace in 1851 - a time when 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. Comprehensively illustrated and richly researched, Iron, Ornament and Architecture in Victorian Britain presents the most sustained study to date of the development of mechanised architectural ornament in iron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception and theorisation by architects, critics and engineers, and the contexts in which it flourished, including industrial buildings, retail and seaside architecture, railway stations, buildings for export and exhibition, and street furniture. Appealing to architects, conservationists, historians and students of nineteenth-century visual culture and the built environment, this book offers new ways of understanding the notion of modernity in Victorian architecture by questioning and re-evaluating both Victorian and modernist understandings of the ideological split between historicism and functionalism, and ornament and structure.
Author : Owen Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : PSU:000001613032
Author : Andrea Gleiniger,Georg Vrachliotis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034608879
As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament – and hence pattern as well – was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960s. Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and pattern formation to take on new meanings, that are also central for architecture. Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture?
Author : Jonathan Massey
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015080849931
The first biography of Claude Bragdon, an early and unique, but often overlooked, advocate of architectural modernism.
Author : Farshid Moussavi
Publisher : Actarbirkhauser
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1940291690
A graphic guide to ornaments of 20th century building envelopes.