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 explore the 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 the strategies 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.

Autorentext

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

Inhalt

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