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• Title:Building as ornament : iconography in contemporary architecture / Michiel van Raaij ; [translation, Charles Frink].
  
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• Author/Creator:Raaij, Michiel van, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Frink, Charles, translator.
  
• Published/Created:Rotterdam : Nai010, [2014]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA680 .R33 2014
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture, Modern--20th century.
  Architecture, Modern--21st century.
  Architectural design.
  Symbolism in architecture.
  Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
  Architects--Interviews.
  
• Description:237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"The ornament is back, but now on the scale of the building as a whole. A letter of the alphabet, a dress, a rock formation or an airplane - the diversity of forms that the new architecture can take is almost infinite. In Building as Ornament, Michiel van Raaij, interviews ten leading architects and historians to trace back how this new architecture first emerged in the early 1990s and how it has matured over the start of the present century. A new generation of architects regards the design of the scaled-up ornament as an inextricable part of their practice. What are their motivations? How do they place their ideas in the tradition of their old profession? Michiel van Raaij argues that the new ornament allows architects to design ever more eloquent buildings, but that this new practice is bound by certain rules. A successful ornament represents a virtue and explains the function, social status, load-bearing structure, organization and/or context of the building."--Back cover.
  
• Notes:Translated from the Dutch.
  
• ISBN:9462080445
  9789462080447
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Interviews Aukevander Woud
  Denise Scott Brown
  Charles Jencks
  Interviews Adriaan Geuze
  Michiel Riedijk
  Alejandro Zaero-Polo
  Benvan Berkel
  Interviews Steven Holl
  Winy Maas
  Bjarke Ingels
  Outroduction
  Illustration Credits
  About the Author
  Credits.