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 explorethe 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 thestrategies 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.

About the Author
Ben Pell, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, PellOverton architecture research + design, New York.


Book Information
ISBN 9783034602211
Author Ben Pell
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Birkhauser
Publisher Birkhauser
Weight(grams) 1204g