ORNAMENT: SEMANTICS AND TECTONICS IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARCHITECTURE

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Title:	ORNAMENT: SEMANTICS AND TECTONICS IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARCHITECTURE
Author:	FARRELL, GAVIN R
Description:	With some notable exceptions, ornament today has largely increased its scale and reduced its descriptive content in what can only be described as an evasion of putting forward a readable socially-relevant meaning. It may be that current sentiments of a diverse, relativistic modern society prevent ornament’s conveyance of direct idealistic social messages. If this is so, then ornament has two ‘holding patterns;’ 1. To express the purpose of the building, and 2. to increase the building’s significance. The theoretical root of the problem of ornament will be investigated, and its various types and methods of application will be described with an eye for giving an understanding of ornament’s strengths, weaknesses, and its intimate, mutually-enhancing connection with form, structure, and the resultant space. Tentative principles of use for the 21st century will be developed, suggesting the necessity of a real or implied relationship between tectonics and semantics.
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1115929765 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/12550
Date:	2005

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