Antoine Picon: Ornament | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781119965954 | Ornament | The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity | Picon

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Beschreibung

Over the last decade or so, the widespread adoption of digital techniques have greatly expanded the possibilities of applying ornament in design. As well as looking at the c topic of ornament, the book reflects on what is currently happening in the light of current theoretical and historical research. The author is a theorist and historian who also has a deep knowledge of the effects that digital culture has on architecture - his most recent book deals with this set of issues. A historical perspective is often necessary to understand the potential for change of the present. He asks whether we may be on the verge of a radical redefinition of the relation between architecture and politics based on the emergence of a new relation between subjectivity and ornament.

Über den Autor

Antoine Picon is the G Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). He is also Director of Research at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris. He has published numerous books and articles mostly dealing with the complementary histories of architecture, science and technology, among which are: French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 1992 and 2009), Claude Perrault (1613-1688) ou la curiosité d'un classique (Picard, 1988), L'Invention de l'Ingénieur Moderne, L'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851 (Presses de l'Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1992), La Ville Territoire des Cyborgs (L'Imprimeur, 1998), Les Saint-Simoniens: Raison, Imaginaire, et Utopie (Belin, 2002), and Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions (Birkhäuser, 2010).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Architecture as Ornament? 009

Chapter 1: A Problematic Return 017

The Ornamental Revival in Contemporary Architecture 019

Textures, Patterns and Topology: A Different Ornament 027

The Subjective and the Political 047

Chapter 2: Ornament and Subjectivity 059

The Visage of Architecture 060

The Architect, between Rules and Invention 062

Artists, Craftsmen and the Fabrication of Ornament 073

From Clients to Passers-By 082

Industrialisation and the Ornamental Impulse 090

The Ghost of Ornament 097

Chapter 3: Politics of Ornament 103

From Economics to Politics 103

Communication and Style 106

The Power of Architectural Décor 122

Chapter 4: Reinventing the Meaning of Ornament 129

A New Architectural Subject 129

Political Uncertainties 144

Meaning and Symbols 145

Bibliography 157

Index 163

Picture Credits 167

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Kunst
Rubrik:	Kunst & Musik
Thema:	Architektur
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	168 S.
ISBN-13:	9781119965954
ISBN-10:	1119965950
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	1W119965950
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Picon, Antoine
Hersteller:	Wiley John Wiley & Sons
Maße:	244 x 170 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Antoine Picon
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.05.2013
Gewicht:	0,305 kg

Artikel-ID: 106114153