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Historic Ornament
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Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration
'Urban Design: Ornament and Decoration' focuses on decorating the city and how ornament has been used to bring delight to the urban scene. The authors show how the pattern and distribution of street and square and other major elements in the city can be enhanced by the judicious use of decorative surface treatment and by the careful placing of hard and soft landscape features. This second edition, updated by Cliff Moughtin and now available in paperback, includes a new chapter on mud architecture. Case studies of city decoration are also outlined to bring together the ideas discussed and to show how ornament and decoration can be used to emphasize the five components of city form: the path, the node, the edge, the landmark and the district.
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Ornament and Decoration in Islamic Architecture
Surface decoration has always played a fundamental role in Islamic architecture. As human representation is forbidden in Islamic religious monuments, designers employed mosaics, stucco, brickwork and ceramics, and the vigorous use of brilliant colour to reach unparalleled heights of expression. It is this ornamental dimension of Islamic architecture that is explored in this magnificent volume. Rather than limiting itself to an exclusively historical or chronological perspective, Ornament and Decoration in Islamic Architecture presents four successive approaches to its subject. The first part offers an overview of Islamic architecture, discussing the great diversity it contains. Dealing exclu...
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Architecture & Ornament
From rear cover notes: "Architecture and Ornament contains over 900 drawings and 1500 text definitions to illustrate and explain the terminology of Western architecture and decoration. The multitudinous elements of buildings and ornament are here categorized and described both in words and by clear straightforward line illustration. Even more information is supplied by an illustrated timechart of architectural history, and by 90 brief profiles of architects as well as 70 theumbnail sketches of styles and periods. This book provides a fascinating guide for both the amateur architectural and design enthusiast, and for the teacher and student of the arts and crafts."
The Grammar of Ornament
The complete and unabridged full-color edition First published in 1856, The Grammar of Ornament remains a design classic. Its inspiration came from pioneering British architect and designer Owen Jones (1809–1874), who produced a comprehensive design treatise for the machine age, lavishly illustrated in vivid chromolithographic color. Jones made detailed observations of decorative arts on his travels in Europe, the Middle East, and in his native London, where he studied objects on display at the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851 and at local museums. His aim was to improve the quality of Western design by changing the habits of Victorian designers, who indiscriminately mixed elements from a wide variety of sources. Jones's resulting study is a comprehensive analysis of styles of ornamental design, presenting key examples ranging from Maori tattoos, Egyptian columns, and Greek borders to Byzantine mosaic, Indian embroidery, and Elizabethan carvings. At once splendidly Victorian and insistently modern, The Grammar of Ornament celebrates objects of beauty from across time periods and continents, and remains an indispensable sourcebook today.
Historic Ornament
"Historic Ornament" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by an Irish artist James Ward. Contents: Prehistoric Ornament Neolithic Stone Period The Bronze Age The Iron Age The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and other parts of Europe Egyptian Art Chaldean and Assyrian Art Phœnician Art Art in Ancient Persia Grecian Art Art in Primitive Greece Greek and Roman Orders of Architecture Greek and Roman Architectural Ornament Indian art and Architecture Chinese and Japanese Architecture Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture Saracenic Architecture and Ornament Romanesque Architecture and Ornament Gothic Architecture and Ornament Renaissance Architecture and Ornament Pottery Enamels Ivory Carvings Metal Work Furniture Textile Fabrics Mosaics Glass The Decoration of Books
Urban Design
This book offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and building that make up the public face of towns and cities. It includes the arrangement, design and details of these elements and the roles they play in city planning.
