The Articulate Surface: Ornament and Technology in Contemporary Architecture

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.
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An aparitie	2010
Autor	Ben Pell
Dimensiuni	2.5 x 24.8 x 27.3 cm
Editura	Birkhauser
Format	Hardcover
ISBN	9783034602211
Limba	Engleza
Nr pag	192