The Articulate Surface - Ornament and Technology in Contemporary Architecture (Hardcover, Edition.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Birkhauser
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Ben Pell
Contributors:	Andreas Hild • Sam Jacob • Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Dimensions:	245 x 270 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	200
Edition:	Edition.
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-460221-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Architectural structure & design Promotions
LSN:	3-03-460221-9
Barcode:	9783034602211

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