S AM 05 - Ornament neu aufgelegt/Re-sampling ornament
title is out of print
June
2008, 104 pages, 22,5 x 30 cm, many colour illustrations, paperback
english/german
CHF 19.00 / € 12.00
ISBN: 978-3-85616-371-6
ISSN: 1662-260X
Exactly 100 years after Adolf Loos wrote Ornament and Crime, a manifesto that effectively relegated ornament in architecture to the peripheries of the discourse, “Re-sampling Ornament” takes a first step towards tracing its re-emergence. For decades the language of architectural ornament has remained largely unspoken, but for a few memorable post-modern architectural experiments. Yet from Owen Jones 'Grammar of Ornament' to John Ruskin, Gottfried Semper, Louis Sullivan and William Hogarth – and contemporaries such as Kent Bloomer, a rich vocabulary of opposing and often contradictory theories exists to be readapted, re-sampled, and once again applied at the heart of architectural practice.
Exhibition at the Swiss Architecture Museum Basel from 31st may to 21st september 2008
