Book Description
Embellishment is a basic human need. Why was it banished from modern architecture?
Author : Brent C. Brolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393730463
Embellishment is a basic human need. Why was it banished from modern architecture?
Author : Paloma Pajares-Ayuela
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393730371
A richly illustrated study of architectural ornament in the late Middle Ages.
Author : Evan Blum
Publisher : Potter Style
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
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.
Author : Kent Bloomer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 2000-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780393730364
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 : Gülru Necipoğlu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0691167281
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 : Albert Hill
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780714874166
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 : Dr Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 1472418980
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 : Mary L. Myers
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 11,14 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Architectural drawing
ISBN : 0870996258
Author : Ben Pell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3034612168
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 : Farshid Moussavi
Publisher : Actarbirkhauser
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,14 MB
Release : 2015-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781940291697
A graphic guide to ornaments of 20th century building envelopes.