Title & Author:

Ornament today : digital material structural / edited by Jörg H. Gleiter.

Publication:

Bolzano : Bozen--Bolzano University Press, ©2012.

Description:

183 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Jörg H. Gleiter -- What is ornament? / Jörg H. Gleiter -- Owen Jones and the threefold nature of ornament / Martin Kirves -- The aesthetic of Louis H. Sullivan : between ornament and functionality / Elisabetta Di Stefano -- Adolf Loos : ornament and the evolution of culture / Jörg H. Gleiter -- Ornament and knowledge : on the symbolic function of ornament / Jan Bovelet -- A critical theory of ornament / Jörg H. Gleiter -- Calculated : the formal excesses of digital ornament / Ingeborg M. Rocker -- Beauty, ornament, and the new digital authorship / Mario Carpo.

Summary:

"The debates on ornament have reignited. As the digital age dawns, ornament - the very thing that modernity attempted to abolish at the beginning of the machine age - is making a comeback in design, architecture and art. The return of ornament is an indication of a fundamental change. Opinions diverge when it comes to ornament, but less in the sense of taste than that the central formative questions crystallise on it. 'Ornament' is the battleground of theory and practice."--Page [1] flap of cover.

Resources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788860460486 (paperback)
8860460484 (paperback)

Subject:

Decoration and ornament.
Design.
Industrial design.
Décoration et ornement.
design (discipline)
industrial design.
21.83 history of ornament.
Ornament
Architektur
Ästhetik
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283221
Call No.: BIB 221300
Status: Available