Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity by Antoine Picon

By Antoine Picon

Once condemned by means of Modernism and in comparison to a ‘crime’ through Adolf bogs, decoration has made a stunning go back in modern structure. this can be typified by way of the works of famous architects similar to Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi structure and OMA. there's no doubt that those new decorative trends are inseparable from strategies in laptop expertise. The proliferation of advancements in layout software program has enabled architects to scan afresh with texture, color, trend and topology.

although inextricably associated with electronic instruments and tradition, Antoine Picon argues that a few major qualities in decoration persist from previous Western architectural traditions. those he defines because the ‘subjective’ – the human interplay that decoration calls for in either its creation and its reception – and the political. opposite to the message conveyed through the founding fathers of recent structure, conventional decoration was once no longer intended just for excitement. It conveyed important information regarding the designation of structures in addition to in regards to the rank in their vendors. As such, it participated within the expression of social values, hierarchies and order. by means of bringing past traditions in decoration lower than scrutiny, Picon makes us query the political matters at stake in today’s decorative revival. What does it let us know approximately present-day tradition? Why are we shortly so afraid of that means in structure? may well it's that by way of guidance so vehemently clear of symbolism, modern structure is evading any specific contribution to collective values?

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