Modulierte Oberflächen: Ornament Und Technologie in Der Gegenwartsarchitektur [German]

By Ben Pell

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 explore the 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 the strategies 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: German
• ISBN: 3034602200
• ISBN13: 9783034602204
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.5" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary