The Function of Ornament
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The Function of Ornament

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Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo, Michael Kubo

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eBook - ePub

The Function of Ornament

Second Printing

Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo, Michael Kubo

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About This Book

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses through new concepts that connect with these forces, manifesting itself in new aesthetic compositions and affects. Ornament is the by-product of this process, through which architectural material is organized to transmit unique affects. This book is a graphic guide to ornaments in the twentieth century. It unveils the function of ornament as the agent for specific affects, dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity. Each case operates through greater or lesser depth to exploit specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. These internal orders produce expressions that are contemporary, yet whose affects are resilient in time.

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Publisher
Actar
Year
2022
ISBN
9781638409557
Edition
2
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture Design

Table of contents

  1. 01 Program - Fluted - Marina City Apartments
  2. 02 Program - Aggregated - Capsule Hotel
  3. 03 Construction - Spiral - 30 st. Mary Axe Street
  4. 04 Cladding - Banded - Johnson Wax Laboratory Tower
  5. 05 Light - Dematerialized - Tower of Winds
  6. 06 Shape - Amorphous - Selfridges Department Store
  7. 07 Construction - Undulated - Church of the Christ the Worker
  8. 08 Construction - Latticed - Banque Lambert Headquarters
  9. 09 Construction - Oblique - Carson Pirie Scott Department Store
  10. 10 Construction - Scaleless - MIT Simmons Hall
  11. 11 Construction - Vertical - Seagram Building
  12. 12 Cladding - Quilted - Prada Aoyama Store
  13. 13 Cladding - Modular - US Embassy
  14. 14 Pattern - Random - Serpentine Pavilion
  15. 15 Pattern - Relief - Millard House
  16. 16 Program - Diverse - Silodam Housing
  17. 17 Program - Modular - Berlin Free University
  18. 18 Construction - Rusticated - Dominus Winery
  19. 19 Cladding - Textured - Beinecke Rare Book Library
  20. 20 Cladding - Pleated - Christian Dior Omotesando Store
  21. 21 Cladding - Discontinuous - Sendai Mediatheque
  22. 22 Pattern - Differentiated - Aichi Spanish Pavilion
  23. 23 Pattern - Embroidered - John Lewis Department Store
  24. 24 Pattern - Complex - The Atrium at Federation Square
  25. 25 Branding - Kinetic - Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills Store
  26. 26 Branding - Moired - Louis Vuitton Nagoya Store
  27. 27 Image - Differentiated - De Young Museum
  28. 28 Color - Differentiated - Torre Agbar Headquarters
  29. 29 Light - Geometric - Institut du Monde Arabe
  30. 30 Light - Cinematic - Maison de Verre
  31. 31 Light - Luminous - Kunsthaus Bregenz
  32. 32 Cladding - Weighted - Ricola Laufen Warehouse
  33. 33 Cladding - Deep - Signal Box
  34. 34 Cladding - Differentiated - Boehringer Ingelheim Offices and Laboratories
  35. 35 Pattern - Tartan - Christian Dior Ginza Store
  36. 36 Pattern - Alternating - IBM Training and Manufacturing Center
  37. 37 Reflection - Camouflaged - Usine Aplix
  38. 38 Color - Tonal - Laban Dance Center
  39. 39 Image - Gradated - Ricola Mulhouse Factory
  40. 40 Image - Textured - Nexus Housing
  41. 41 Image - Branded - Santa Monica Place Garage
  42. 42 Image - Serial - Eberswalde Library