by Michiel Van Raaij · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789462080447
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«Building As Ornament» is an architecture essay by Michiel van Raaij, published by nai010 publishers in paperback (240 pages, in English).
It studies the return of ornament to architecture as a form of the entire building, not as facade decoration: letters, pebbles or emblems. In ten interviews, Van Raaij analyses the trend from the late nineties to the twenty-first century and argues that ornament should clarify the building's function, status, construction and context.
The work was originally published in 2013 and this edition dates from 2014; English translation by Charles Frink.
For architects, architecture students and readers interested in contemporary architecture and its iconography.
