A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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With the strictures of Modernism behind us, the possibilities of ornament are being rediscovered, but often in a vacuum without method or understanding. Oliver Domeisen describes how in diploma units at the Architectural Association in London ornament is being pursued with a purpose as contemporary digital design and construction techniques are fused with an awareness of grammar and definition. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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With the strictures of Modernism behind us, the possibilities of ornament are being rediscovered, but often in a vacuum without method or understanding. Oliver Domeisen describes how in diploma units at the Architectural Association in London ornament is being pursued with a purpose as contemporary digital design and construction techniques are fused with an awareness of grammar and definition. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Beyond White Walls
Domeisen, Oliver (author)
Architectural Design ; 78 ; 118-121
2008-11-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Convex and concave veins , Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime, 1908 , extension to the Victoria & Albert Museum , Corten steel , Amandine Kastler (AA Intermediate Unit 9), A Cabinet of Curiosities, Victoria & Albert Museum, 2006/07 , Louis Sullivan (Ornament in Architecture. 1892) . , William Hogarth's Line of Beauty , Alex Kaiser (AA Diploma Unit 13), A New Ornament for the Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London, 2007/08 , atlases and caryatids , Heinrich Wölfflin (Prolegomena to a Psychology of Architecture, 1886) Rococco geometry , ‘comely in the nude’ , cavernous mass of bulging marble , Amandine Kastler , Greco‐Roman sculpture , Johann Esaias Nilson, New Coffee House (Neues Caffehaus) , Augsburg, 1756 , ornamental interventions
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