tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post115456268234455839..comments2024-03-27T23:45:06.093+01:00Comments on Renewable Music: OrnamentDaniel Wolfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09093101325234464791noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9617011.post-1154629911599750642006-08-03T20:31:00.000+02:002006-08-03T20:31:00.000+02:00FL Wright believed that ornament was necesisary to...FL Wright believed that ornament was necesisary to "humanize" a building and kept a degree of ornament in all his designs up until his death. but modernism didnt follow him, but a much easier path of imitation, mies and le corbu who seemed to set a simplier, non idiosyncratic meathod of design (with the exception of corbu's rochamp chapel) and Mies found a language and basically repeated the same thing for nearly 30 years (even though his pavillions and towers are gorgeous, they've been imitated to the point of banality) Ornament is still such a taboo in contemporary design, its funny, and goofy. Venturi and other post-modernists havent helped ornament's cause (even though they've used it) they've just made it seem all the more banal to more sophiticated designers. <BR/><BR/>But the problem is, i think, that architecture is still relying on a platonic assumption of "form beyond experience" that is, the form of something, and that its "pure geometry" is of value and that ornament is always just slapped on and not part of the buildings transcendental form. This is, of course, bullshit. Ornament defines the shape and actuality of a building, how we experience it and all that. The form IS dependent on ornament, there is no deeper form beyond it. <BR/><BR/>and sad to hear about the two cowells.. i was really hoping it was named for the composer. It'd show a little bit of character that way.M. Keiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06371756348134460552noreply@blogger.com