The Function of Ornament: Second Printing

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Designed to work flawlessly with any of the headers that ARC carries.
Made from 3/16 aluminum and drilled for use with angled motor mounts.

Description

Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to turn into connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material to work with. Architecture’s materiality is due to this fact a composite one, made up of visible forces (structural, functional, physical) in addition to invisible forces (cultural, political, temporal). Architecture progresses through new concepts that connect with these forces, manifesting itself in new aesthetic compositions and affects. Ornament is the by-product of this process, through which architectural material is organized to transmit unique affects.

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 concept that ornament is applied to buildings as a discrete or non-crucial entity. Every case operates through greater or lesser depth to exploit specific synergies between the exterior and the interior, constructing an internal order between ornament and material. These internal orders produce expressions which are latest, yet whose affects are resilient in time.
Designed to work flawlessly with any of the headers that ARC carries.
Constituted of 3/16 aluminum and drilled to be used with angled motor mounts.

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