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Refinement and enrichment of surfaces in stone, wood and plaster is a fundamental aspect of early modern architecture which has been marginalised by architectural history. Enriching Architecture aims to retrieve and rehabilitate surface achievement as a vital element of early modern buildings in Britain and Ireland. Rejected by modernism, demeaned by the conceptual 'turn' and too often reduced to its representative or social functions, we argue for the historical legitimacy of creative craft skill as a primary agent in architectural production. However, in contrast to the connoisseurial and developmental perspectives of the past, this book is concerned with how surfaces were designed, achieved and experienced. The contributors draw upon the major rethinking of craft and materials within the wider cultural sphere in recent years to deconstruct traditional, oppositional ways of thinking about architectural production. This is not a craft for craft's sake argument but an effort to embed the tangible findings of conservation and curatorial research within an evidence-led architectural history that illuminates the processes of early modern craftsmanship. The book explores broad themes of surface treatment such as wainscot, rustication, plasterwork, and staircase embellishment together with chapters focused on virtuoso buildings and set pieces which illuminate these themes.

Decoration and ornament. --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural.

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This book is the outcome of the research project "El acto creativo en el proyecto arquitecto´nico" (The Creative Act in the Architectural Project) carried out at the Faculty of Architecture and Art of the UPC and where various specialists (national and international) were invited to participate. "This book reflects on the multiple relationships between art and architecture. The research addresses two thematic nuclei: the relationship between the image in the city, from a temporary experience in contemporaneity. On the other hand, the thought of artistic practices in a dialectical way, addresses the aesthetics of architecture from its complexity. The book opens up reflection on the image as a dynamic trigger between history and recent memory, from Pop Art and how it relates intimately to architecture, as a new kind of radical update of modern design, under certain changing conditions of international capitalism." (HKB Translation) --Verso Cover. Este libro reflexiona sobre las múltiples relaciones entre el arte y la arquitectura, como objeto de estudio. La investigación aborda dos núcleos temáticos: La relación entre la imagen en la ciudad, desde una experiencia temporal en la contemporaneidad. Por otra parte, el pensar las prácticas artísticas de manera dialéctica, aborda las estéticas de la arquitectura desde su complejidad. El libro abre la reflexión sobre la imagen como un activador dinámico entre la historia y el recuerdo reciente, desde el pop y cómo éste se relaciona íntimamente con la arquitectura, como un nuevo tipo de actualización radical del diseño moderno, bajo ciertas condiciones cambiantes del capitalismo internacional, que integra un nuevo vocabulario postindustrial que determina la estética pop del diseño en una forma arquitectónica que moldea el entorno y con él un nuevo tipo de imagen de ciudad.

Architecture --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural. --- City and town life. --- Aesthetics.

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Exceptionally comprehensive, easy-to-use guide surveys the evolution of historic ornament in architecture and the applied arts - from primitive ornaments of Oceania, Egypt, and Assyria to a Gothic doorway in Amiens, the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, and a classic early-19th-century sofa by Thomas Hope. Over 700 black-and-white illustrations. 16 plates of photographs.

Decoration And Ornament, Architectural --- Art, Decorative --- Architecture --- Design --- Decoration and ornament --- Decorative arts --- Details. --- History.

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In a wide-ranging exploration of the creation and use of Buddhist art in Andhra Pradesh, India, from the second and third centuries of the Common Era to the present, Catherine Becker shows how material remains and visual experiences shape and reveal essential human concerns.

Buddhist relief (Sculpture) --- Relief (Sculpture), Indic --- Limestone sculpture --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- Ståupas --- Art and society

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This book investigates the evolution of rusticated facings in perhaps one of the most significant contexts for their history, namely the architecture of the 15th century in Florence, where the development of this type of masonry intertwines with that of the buildings constructed over the century. Their main distinctive trait is naturalism, which in different shapes and degrees permeates every facing, thus becoming a sort of local inflection, which contaminates even the most up-to-date languages. The Florence renovatio of ancient architecture passes indeed from the masonries, as pointed out by many writings from that period, which describe their contemporary rusticated facings and compare them to the massif ancient opus quadratum. While accepting the lesson on magnificence by the Julio-Claudian rustication, Florence facings would never become a faithful reproduction of the Roman models, but would always retain traditional characters and patterns, constantly oscillating between an expressive freedom and a yearning for the rigour of form.

Architecture --- Architecture, Renaissance --- Decoration and ornament, Architectural --- History --- Florence (Italy) --- Buildings, structures, etc.