The Function of Ornament

ed. by Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo

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Editor(s)

Farshid Moussavi, Michael Kubo

Publisher, year

Barcelona : Actar, 2008

Scope

190 p., illustrated, 22 cm.

ISBN

8496540502

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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 non-essential entity. Ornament is seen as a mechanism that allows architecture to become connected to culture.

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Person as subject

Herzog & De Meuron, Jean Prouvé, MVRDV, Frank Lloyd Wright …[et al.]

Keywords

0. architecture - general , 0. design - general , graphic design in public space

Location

Architecture

Extra themes

Architecture and Art

Remarks

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