Ornament and time : a prolegomena

Author

Carl, Peter

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

AA files. 1992, Num. 23, 49-64, 21 ill.; diagrams

ISSN

0261-6823

Abstract (en)

Part 2 of a study of temporality in architecture, focusing on ornament as the traditional vehicle of mediation. Examines the dialectics of physis and logos, or hiddenness and disclosure, in Renaissance and Mannerist architecture; and seeks to explain how the experience of the importance of ornament became the opposite in the modern period. Observes that modernist attacks on ornament were accompanied by an effort to recover the content, so that aspects of design previously reserved for ornament came to encompass whole buildings, as exemplified by Le Corbusier's chapel at Ronchamp; concludes that Le Corbusier's belief that geometry is the basis of a reconciliation with nature derives from a recapitulation of the reciprocity of physis and logos. (Part 1 appeared in AA files, 1991, no 22 (autumn), p. 48-65).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- Architecture
• Architectural decoration
• Time
• Architecture
• Ornament
• Italy
• 1500-1600
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), 1887-1965
• Notre-Dame-du-Haut||Ronchamp (FRA)
• Chapels
• France
• Modernism
• Comparison

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- Architecture
• Décoration architecturale
• Temps
• Architecture
• Ornement
• Italie
• 1500-1600
• Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret), 1887-1965
• Notre-Dame-du-Haut||Ronchamp (FRA)
• Chapelle [édifice]
• France
• Modernisme
• Comparaison

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940101-00337593

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