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 explorethe 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 thestrategies 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.

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Ben Pell, Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, Connecticut, PellOverton architecture research + design, New York.

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Kapitel 1: Aufbringen Einleitung Bellemo & Cat, Polygreen House Splitterwerk, Frog Queen Lyons Architects, Victoria University Training Center Herzog & de Meuron, Bibliothek Eberswalde Hild und K Architekten,Sportwissenschaftliches Institut BFTS Dietrich Untertrifaller Architects, Walch's Event Catering Center Wiel Arets Architects,Universitätsbibliothek Utrecht ___ Kapitel 2: Perforieren/Schneiden Einleitung Claesson Koivisto Rune, Sfera Building Klein Dytham architecture, Leaf Chapel Atelier Hitoshi Abe, Aoba-Tei Restaurant Atelier Hitoshi Abe with Asao Tokolo, Pachinko Tiger Kagitori 6a Architects, Hairywood AAVP Architecture, Résidence André de Gouveia Herzog & de Meuron, De Young Museum ___ Kapitel 3: Schichten Einleitung Essay: Sam Jacob, "Die Oberfläche als Manifest" Faulders Studio, Airspace Tokyo FAT, Villa in Hoogvliet Foreign Office Architects, John Lewis Department Store Kumiko Inui, Louis Vuitton Hilton Plaza Kumiko Inui, Dior Ginza ___ Kapitel 4: Formen/Gießen Einleitung Essay: Andreas Hild, "Gebäude Gebilde Gemenge" Rüdiger Lainer, Büro- and Fitnesscenter Rüdiger Lainer, Mehrfamilienhaus Lyons Architects, Mornington Center Hild und K Architekten, Fassadensanierung FAT, Kunstakademie Sint Lucas Herzog & de Meuron, 40 Bond Street Valerio Olgiati, Atelier Bardill Kengo Kuma, Chokkura Plaza Kumiko Inui, Shin-Yatsushiro-Monument Wiel Arets, Living Madrid ___ Kapitel 5: Stapeln/Kacheln Einleitung Essay: Alejandro Zaera-Polo, "Muster und Strukturen" Foreign Office Architects, Spanischer Pavillon, Expo 2005 Foreign Office Architects, Sozialer Wohnungsbau Carabanchel Hild und K Architekten, Haus in Aggstall PTW Architects, Nationales Schwimmzentrum (Water Cube) Gramazio & Kohler, Fassade Weingut Gantenbein Coelacanth and Associates, Liberal Arts and Sciences College SHoP, 290 Mulberry Street