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The Function of Ornament, Fashid Moussavi and Michael Kubo (2006)

 

 

The Function of Ornament

Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo, editors

Actar and Harvard University Graduate School of Design

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

 

FORM

fluted Marina City Apartments
aggregated Capsule Hotel
spiral 30 St. Mary Axe Street
banded Johnson Wax Laboratory Tower
dematerialized Tower of Winds
amorphous Selfridges Department Store

STRUCTURE

undulated Church of the Christ Worker
latticed Banque Lambert Headquarters
oblique Carson Pirie Scott Department Store
scaleless MIT Simmons Hall
vertical Seagram Building
quilted Prada Aoyama Store
modular US Embassy
random Serpentine Pavilion
relief Millard House

SCREEN

diverse Silodam Housing
modular Berlin Free University
rusticated Dominus Winery
textured Beinecke Rare Book Library
pleated Christian Dior Omotesando Store
discontinuous Sendai Mediatheque
differentiated Aichi Spanish Pavilion
embroidered John Lewis Department Store
complex The Atrium at Federation Square
kinetic Louis Vuitton Roppongi Hills Store
moired Louis Vuitton Nagoya Store
differentiated De Young Museum
differentiated Torre Agbar Headquarters
geometric Institut du Monde Arabe
cinematic Maison de Verre
luminous Kunsthaus Bregenz

SURFACE

weighted Ricola Laufen Warehouse
deep Signal Box
differentiated Boehringer Ingelheim Offices and Laboratories
tartan Christian Dior Ginza Store
alternating IBM Training and Manufacturing Center
camouflaged Usine Aplix
tonal Laban Dance Center
gradated Ricola Mulhouse Factory
textured Nexus Housing
branded Santa Monica Place Garage
serial Eberswalde Library

 

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Publication Title/Year
The Function of Ornament, 2006

Publisher
Actar and Harvard University Graduate School of Design

Authors/Editors
Farshid Moussavi
Michael Kubo