The Function of Ornament

--Death By Architecture . This book represents a return to architectural research as drawing. --Death By ArchitectureA thoroughly and beautifully illustrated book that gives a broad overview of the various affects achieved by mostly contemporary buildings. If it's a harbinger for 2007, I'm excited to see what else Actar and whoever else dares to draw can come up with. --Archinect The Function of Ornament is a primer for the digital age, with Foreign Office Architects Farshid Moussavi demonstrating how the computer is as fine a form generator as any pattern book. -- Architect's Journal A compelling study of affect manifest in clearly presented case studies with savy representations of various architectural techniques. --ArchidoseThe impressive array of diagrams are extremely clear and useful If you are looking for component and systems analysis of projects such as Future Systems' amorphous Selfridges Department Store or Herzog and de Meuron's embossed copper skin at the De

These internal orders produce expressions that are contemporary, yet whose affects are resilient in time.. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. 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. Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. Ornament is the by-product of this process, through which architectural material is o

archiman said Excellent and Elegant. This is not a technical manual as a couple reviewers seems to wish, nor a survey of ornament in architecture. Nor does it ever claim to be such--reviewers should review a book not wish it was a different book. Instead it represents the results of gradu. Basically the only function is "EFFECT" and that's what the whole book pretty much talks about very nice drawings though and dia abc There isn't any perceived function of ornamentBasically the only function is "EFFECT" and that's what the whole book pretty much talks aboutvery nice drawings though and diagrams.But the thesis is a bit mehor rather just not very profound.A person who . "Ornament redefined" according to AB. I purchased this book after a fellow colleague recommended it to me and I must say it's become one of my favorite books because of its explicit and clear way of explaining the concepts of the buildings selected. All architecture books should be written

in Architecture from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He graduated with an M.Arch from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and with a B.A. . With ACTAR, he is the editor of Desert America: Territory of Paradox (2006), Verb Conditioning (2005), Seattle Public Library (2005), Verb Connection and Verb Matters (2004), Phylogenesis: FOA's Ark (2003), and The Yokohama Project (2002). They have produced numerous critically-acc