Modulierte Oberflächen German, 1st Edition. edition

Ornament und Technologie in der Gegenwartsarchitektur. Ornament is currently acquiring a renewed status in architecture As contemporary technologies of design and fa ication 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