Ornament: the politics of architecture and subjectivity
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9781119965954
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Over the last decade or so, the widespread adoption of digital techniques have greatly expanded the possibilities of applying ornament in design. As well as looking at the c topic of ornament, the book reflects on what is currently happening in the light of current theoretical and historical research. The author is a theorist and historian who also has a deep knowledge of the effects that digital culture has on architecture his most recent book deals with this set of issues. A historical perspective is often necessary to understand the potential for change of the present. He asks whether we may be on the verge of a radical redefinition of the relation between architecture and politics based on the emergence of a new relation between subjectivity and ornament.
168 p.
22 cm.
ill.
Introduction : Architecture as ornament? --
A problematic return : The ornamental revival in contemporary architecture ;
Textures, patterns and topology: a different ornament ;
The subjective and the political --
Ornament and subjectivity : The visage of architecture ;
The architect, between rules and inventions ;
Artists, craftsmen and the fabrication of ornament --
From clients to passers-by --
Industrialism and the ornamental impulse ;
The ghost of ornament --
Politics of ornament : From economics to politics ;
Communication and style ;
The power of architectural deĢcor --
Reinventing the meaning of ornament : A new architectural subject ;
Political uncertainties ;
Meaning and symbols.
A problematic return : The ornamental revival in contemporary architecture ;
Textures, patterns and topology: a different ornament ;
The subjective and the political --
Ornament and subjectivity : The visage of architecture ;
The architect, between rules and inventions ;
Artists, craftsmen and the fabrication of ornament --
From clients to passers-by --
Industrialism and the ornamental impulse ;
The ghost of ornament --
Politics of ornament : From economics to politics ;
Communication and style ;
The power of architectural deĢcor --
Reinventing the meaning of ornament : A new architectural subject ;
Political uncertainties ;
Meaning and symbols.
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