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A A primer for the digital age, with Foreign Office Architects' Farshid Moussavi demonstrating how the computer is as fine a form generator as any pattern book." Wallpaper Magazine "A return to architectural research as drawing." Archinect "A thoroughly- and beautifully-illustrated book that gives a broad overview of the various affects achieved by mostly contemporary buildings." Archidose "A remarkable array of forms." Metropolis Magazine "Undeniably powerful." Architect's Journal A A compelling study of affect manifest in clearly presented case studies with savy representations of various architectural techniques.A Documents A The impressive array of diagrams are extremely clear and useful... If you are looking for component and systems analysis of projects such as Future Systems' amorphous Selfridges Department Store or Herzog and de Meuron's embossed copper skin at the De Young Museum; look no further.A Death By Architecture
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Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society. This book is a graphic guide to ornaments in the twentieth century. It unveils the function of ornament as the agent for specific affects, dismantling the idea that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-essential entity. Each case exploits specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. These internal orders produce expressions that are contemporary, yet whose affects are resilient in time. Initiated as a seminar at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Farshid Moussavi is a partner in leading London-based firm Foreign Office Architects.
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The Marina City towers create a fluted affect by visually unifying two programs with very different organizations: sloped parking ramps and flat apartment floors. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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The Marina City towers create a fluted affect by visually unifying two programs with very different organizations: sloped parking ramps and flat apartment floors. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The book samples many well-known projects from the 20th and 21st centuries (and some from before) and explains different aspects of 'ornament'. These relate to various tectonic, social, environmental, or contextual etc issues that each case had to address and how these were expressed as 'ornament'.
The book is mainly graphics-based, but I wish there could have been more text or theory to compliment it.
The book is mainly graphics-based, but I wish there could have been more text or theory to compliment it.
Format:Paperback
A good textbook for students and practicing architects with useful and comprehensive diagrams and drawings covering a wide variety of historic and contemporary examples of ornament.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Nice presentation of some innovative architectural systems
21 May 2007
Format:Paperback
In this graphic guide to building ornamentation in the twentieth century, Moussavi and Kubo have collected an interesting cross-section of architectural projects that demonstrate the mechanisms through which contemporary architecture connects itself to current culture.
Through the selected case study projects, the editors endeavor to illustrate the means through which ornamentation is the very essence of the building. Not being merely 'ornamental' and self-indulgent, the articulation presented is indeed the agent of the architect's ideas.
Various materials and effects are investigated ranging from 'dematerialized light' to 'relief patterns'. The impressive array of diagrams are extremely clear and useful. A typical system is defined through perspective views, sections, pattern diagrams, detailed assembly drawings and relevant notes.
If you are looking for component and systems analysis of projects such as Future Systems' amorphous Selfridges Department Store or Herzog and de Meuron's embossed copper skin at the De Young Museum; look no further.
Through the selected case study projects, the editors endeavor to illustrate the means through which ornamentation is the very essence of the building. Not being merely 'ornamental' and self-indulgent, the articulation presented is indeed the agent of the architect's ideas.
Various materials and effects are investigated ranging from 'dematerialized light' to 'relief patterns'. The impressive array of diagrams are extremely clear and useful. A typical system is defined through perspective views, sections, pattern diagrams, detailed assembly drawings and relevant notes.
If you are looking for component and systems analysis of projects such as Future Systems' amorphous Selfridges Department Store or Herzog and de Meuron's embossed copper skin at the De Young Museum; look no further.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Excellent and Elegant
8 Jun 2009
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This is not a technical manual as a couple reviewers seems to wish, nor a survey of ornament in architecture. Nor does it ever claim to be such--reviewers should review a book not wish it was a different book. Instead it represents the results of graduate level research at Harvard Graduate School of Design into a revitalized understanding of the role of ornament in architecture and how one employs technical and material means to produce architecture effects and phenomena. As such the book is extremely clear, useful and elegantly designed and thoughtfully organized. Great for students and professional who want to think.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Nicely put together
3 Feb 2010
Format:Paperback
I guess, to me at least, the title of the book is bit misleading,
it should be "how to make an interesting building skins"
Because this book provides ample examples of great building skins of
contemporary (some past) architecture.
Graphics, analysis, and categorization are the 3 strong points of the book.
Each example is analyzed in the order of following:
1. elements (typically material)
2. key design concept
3. organization and assembly of key building skin
4. overall effect
For example, for Laban Dance Center by Herzog de Meuron, three different
colors and glasses are introduced, how they are used according to the program
inside, how the glasses are put together as double-layer enclosure, and
the daytime/ nighttime effects are analyzed.
The book speaks with graphics, limiting the number of words used.
The graphics were painstakingly achieved. Really delivering the message
clearly and concisely. Hence, essence of the project concept is easily
graspable, yet, at the same time, being graphics, it leaves room for
subjective interpretation.
it should be "how to make an interesting building skins"
Because this book provides ample examples of great building skins of
contemporary (some past) architecture.
Graphics, analysis, and categorization are the 3 strong points of the book.
Each example is analyzed in the order of following:
1. elements (typically material)
2. key design concept
3. organization and assembly of key building skin
4. overall effect
For example, for Laban Dance Center by Herzog de Meuron, three different
colors and glasses are introduced, how they are used according to the program
inside, how the glasses are put together as double-layer enclosure, and
the daytime/ nighttime effects are analyzed.
The book speaks with graphics, limiting the number of words used.
The graphics were painstakingly achieved. Really delivering the message
clearly and concisely. Hence, essence of the project concept is easily
graspable, yet, at the same time, being graphics, it leaves room for
subjective interpretation.
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