Ornament In Architektur Kunst Und Design

Vor 100 Jahren abgeschafft und totgeglaubt, gibt es längst wieder ein modernes Ornament. War dieses früher schmückendes Beiwerk oder Dekor an sich, stellt es heute ein grundlegendes Konzept und Ordnungsmodell für viele Gestaltungsfelder des täglichen Lebens dar. Anstelle der bislang üblichen Pflanzen und Zeichen durchdringen im 21. Jahrhundert Punktraster, Streifen und Quadrate als ornamentale Strategie Architektur, Kunst und jede Art von Design. Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über alle Ordnungsprinzipien moderner Ornamentik und öffnet den Blick auf eine völlig neue, faszinierende Welt. Für alle, die optische Zusammenhänge ohne Dogma sehen und verstehen wollen.

As models and paradigms, patterns have been helping to orient architects since the Middle Ages. But patterns are also the basis of the history of ornament, an aesthetic phenomenon that links all times and cultures at a fundamental level. Ornament – and hence pattern as well – was abolished by the avant-garde in the first half of the twentieth century, but the notion of pattern has taken on new meaning and importance since the 1960s. Complexity research has ultimately shown that even highly complex, dynamic patterns may be based on simple behavioral rules, and that has allowed the notions of pattern and pattern formation to take on new meanings, that are also central for architecture. Today the use of generative computerized methods is opening up new ways of talking about an idea that is becoming increasingly abstract and dynamic. Pattern explores the question: what are the notions of pattern that must be discussed in the context of contemporary architecture?

The complete and unabridged full-color edition First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources. Jones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. At once splendidly Victorian and insistently modern, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook today.

Covering all periods of history, this lavishly illustrated compendium of styles emphasizes trends and innovations in architectural design--from Babylonian and Greek to Moslem, Renaissance, and American colonial.

Hundreds of detailed illustrations depict painted pilasters from Pompeii, early Gothic stone carvings, a detail from a stained glass window in Canterbury Cathedral, more. Over 700 black-and-white illustrations, 16 plates of photographs.