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Beyond White Walls
Author(s) -
Domeisen Oliver
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.786
Subject(s) - modernism (music) , white (mutation) , architectural engineering , grammar , art history , aesthetics , visual arts , history , engineering , art , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
With the strictures of Modernism behind us, the possibilities of ornament are being rediscovered, but often in a vacuum without method or understanding. Oliver Domeisen describes how in diploma units at the Architectural Association in London ornament is being pursued with a purpose as contemporary digital design and construction techniques are fused with an awareness of grammar and definition. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.