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We were able to get some images from the Re-sampling Ornament show and an article that was published in Switzerland. We plan on having more spicific content on the individual projects later in the week. So for now enjoy>>>>>

Translated from kultur.kunst.

In the grip of Stuckschnörkel bracket
The Basel Museum of Architecture shows the “Ornament, revisited”

The Swiss Architecture

Museum discussed in a dense and Nobel staged The exhibition Ornament in the Architecture. It is the nightmare of every modern Architects: the Rocaille, a wagging combination of Pflanzentrieben and mussel shells, Wellenkämmen and bone arches.Obszön überkrustete it in the 18th Century each room, crawled over each Utensils status until they Überwucherungen a hillside to Clarity and simplicity diverged, it is in the history of architecture always existed. Hundreds Years later she was back, the Rocaille, this time by industrial Vertausendfacht production. Then said the Moderne emerging now the perverted Ornament the fight, held Ornamentlosigkeit for a sign of mental Power - and built white boxes. Now it comes again, the Rocaille. Üppiger than ever it depends from the ceiling of the Swiss Architecture Museum

- a monstrous Tentacle, apparently taking revenge for everything that one’s Sisters in the name of aesthetic Purity pleased. “Ornament,revisited “is the issue, by theMuseum Director Francesca Ferguson together with in London teaching Oliver Domeisen set up in Basel. tattooed. A rehabilitation of the Alen ornament? There are widespread Frills waited too long issue again among the architects — For example, Herzog & deMeuron, are already beginning of the 1990s glass and concrete of Sports Hall Pfaffenschlag wood in St. Louis covered with patterns and thus the “Building tattooed» international Appearance helped. With the advent of the computer in the architecture, but also in the halls of the manufacturing industryand the attendant new Production technologies, the Lust of the architects experimentation with the ornament risen sharply. They can simple metal tubes aufschlitzen of a laser, the resulting Schillerlocken as sun protection curtains Otherwise boxes before ungegliederte hang. Or they explore the possibilities from what a delicate poetry in a brick wall plug, a robot mauerte industry

via computer with round forms fed. A shining pixel pattern, which Ceilings and walls of a Japanese Restaurants and its covers Spaces in an atmospheric Forest turns, the track and betrays, from whatever source is from the beginning the formal dreams Ornamentiker of food: According to Curator is the ornament Domeisen Although a method of almost all in the language of architecture for integration, nature was and is the favorite motif. One of the strengths of the staged noble Exhibition: It shows not only many models and components in real size and film production operations, but follows implications history and goes to with all the scarcity of mere formal Associations also. monstrous. It shows also that Ornaments not always something with Beauty to do: Has the Visitors to handle the monster Rocaille entwunden, he no less a monstrous project, a museum for the Valais Evolène: Höhlenartige yawning spaces behind glass, along  tachelartige,wooden he rausgefräste Continuation rates. Such images,between forest and horror film, arrange the curators generously Alen the ornament. And they Francesca Ferguson are important because the usual connection of ornament and sweet appearance broken. The 16 selected projects, either executed or before the execution standing, are in their own way with the ornament apart, there are more than mere Verhübschung, even though they partially

– Anything but subversive — Services of consumption, as in shown the showrooms by Louis Vuitton in Tokyo or in Citroën Paris. Certainly, the now almost inflationary Using the Ornamentes you can also - still 200 and 100 years - critically. Than Aesthetic dispersion or Curse of compulsive Auffallens — not a few Swiss architects be so. This exhibition makes something else. And they makes it good.

Photos: Tom Bisig

The catalog is available for order here >> christoph-merian-verlag.ch

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