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ORNAMENT: SEMANTICS AND TECTONICS IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARCHITECTURE
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FARRELL, GAVIN R
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Year and Degree
2005, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning : Architecture (Master of).
Abstract
With some notable exceptions, ornament today has largely increased its scale and reduced its descriptive content in what can only be described as an evasion of putting forward a readable socially-relevant meaning. It may be that current sentiments of a diverse, relativistic modern society prevent ornament’s conveyance of direct idealistic social messages. If this is so, then ornament has two ‘holding patterns;’ 1. To express the purpose of the building, and 2. to increase the building’s significance. The theoretical root of the problem of ornament will be investigated, and its various types and methods of application will be described with an eye for giving an understanding of ornament’s strengths, weaknesses, and its intimate, mutually-enhancing connection with form, structure, and the resultant space. Tentative principles of use for the 21st century will be developed, suggesting the necessity of a real or implied relationship between tectonics and semantics.
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Jeff Tilman (Advisor)
Pages
172 p.
Subject Headings
Architecture
Keywords
Ornament
;
Decoration
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FARRELL, G. R. (2005).
ORNAMENT: SEMANTICS AND TECTONICS IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARCHITECTURE
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1115929765
APA Style (7th edition)
FARRELL, GAVIN.
ORNAMENT: SEMANTICS AND TECTONICS IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARCHITECTURE.
2005. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1115929765.
MLA Style (8th edition)
FARRELL, GAVIN. "ORNAMENT: SEMANTICS AND TECTONICS IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN ARCHITECTURE." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1115929765
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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