The Function of Ornament: Second Printing
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (711 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1940291690 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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If it's a harbinger for 2007, I'm excited to see what else Actar and whoever else dares to draw can come up with. --ArchidoseA thoroughly and beautifully illustrated book that gives a broad overview of the various affects achieved by mostly contemporary buildings. --Death By ArchitectureA thoroughly and beautifully illustrated book that gives a broad overview of the various affects achieved by mostly contemporary buildings. --Wallpaper Magazine -- A remarkable array of forms. --Archinect The Function of Ornament is a primer for the digital age, with Foreign Office Architects Farshid Moussavi demonstrating how the computer is as fine a form generator as any pattern book. --ArchidoseThe impressive array of diagrams are extremely clear and useful If you are looking for component and systems analysis of projects such as Future Systems' amorphous Selfr
"Excellent and Elegant" according to archiman. This is not a technical manual as a couple reviewers seems to wish, nor a survey of ornament in architecture. Nor does it ever claim to be such--reviewers should review a book not wish it was a different book. Instead it represents the results of graduate level research at Harvard Graduate School of Design into a revitalized understanding of the role of ornament in architecture and how one employs technical and material means to produce architecture effects and phenomena. As such the book is ex. abc said Basically the only function is "EFFECT" and that's what the whole book pretty much talks about very nice drawings though and dia. There isn't any perceived function of ornamentBasically the only function is "EFFECT" and that's what the whole book pretty much talks aboutvery nice drawings though and diagrams.But the thesis is a bit mehor rather just not very profound.A person who should write a book like this is either REM or Bjarke Ingels. Ornament redefined AB I purchased this book after a fellow colleague recommended it to me and I must say it's become one of my favorite books because of its explicit and clear way of explaining the concepts of the buildings selected. All architecture books should be written this way. Farshid did a great job of validating her standpoint of ornament A concept that has been re-defined in this book.
Architecture's materiality is therefore a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) as well as invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Ornament is the by-product of this process, through which architectural material is organized to transmit unique affects. Each case operates through greater or lesser depth to exploit specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. Architecture progresses through new co
. Farshid Moussavi is an internationally acclaimed architect and Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She was previously co-founder of the London-based Foreign Office Architects (FOA). commission, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland (2012), its installation at the 13th Architecture Biennale in Venice (2012),