The Articulate Surface: Ornament and Technology in Contemporary Architecture

by Ben Pell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3034602219
• ISBN13: 9783034602211
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 9.6"