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dc.contributor.authorMiskinyte, Milda
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-23 15:56:32 (GMT)
dc.date.available2019-01-23 15:56:32 (GMT)
dc.date.issued2019-01-23
dc.date.submitted2019-01-11
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10012/14385
dc.description.abstractThere is a fundamental conflict between the urge to ornament and the contemporary time. The phenomenon of contemporary ornament in the timeframe of early 1990s to present day is explored in the context of the modernist rejection of conventional ornament. Three properties of contemporary ornament differentiate it from traditional ornament. Wallpaper refers to ornament that is scaled freely over the building, often repeated, without consideration of building limits. Fusion describes ornament that is surface-thin, subtractive rather than additive. Interface outlines a mechanism inserted in the line of communication to distance ornament from its author. Ornament is no longer designed or sculpted as much as generated or presented through a distancing lens. These strategies make contemporary ornament resistant to traditional interpretation; meaning is reduced through simple references and lack of recognizable motif. Although ornament has been an integral part of architectural expression through time, and its modernist rejection is a moment in the grand timeframe of ornament in architecture, modernist thought influences the contemporary conception of ornament. The three strategies – wallpaper, fusion, and interface – are recognized as tools that contemporary ornament uses to censor itself, reducing opportunities for expression. Contemporary ornament is an anxious type of ornament; it is aware of its modernist ban and, through the outlined strategies, submits to modernist values. The thesis builds this narrative through varied examples of contemporary ornamented buildings and various contemporary writing on the subject, synthesizing the three strategies into methodology for personal explorations in ornament.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waterlooen
dc.subjectArchitectureen
dc.subjectContemporary architectureen
dc.subjectOrnamenten
dc.subjectContemporary ornamenten
dc.subjectContemporaneityen
dc.subjectFacadeen
dc.subjectDigital fabricationen
dc.subjectModernismen
dc.subjectModern architectureen
dc.subjectModernist ornamenten
dc.subjectAnxious ornamenten
dc.titleAnxious Ornament: Ornament in Contemporary Architectureen
dc.typeMaster Thesisen
dc.pendingfalse
uws-etd.degree.departmentSchool of Architectureen
uws-etd.degree.disciplineArchitectureen
uws-etd.degree.grantorUniversity of Waterlooen
uws-etd.degreeMaster of Architectureen
uws.contributor.advisorMcKay, Donald
uws.contributor.affiliation1Faculty of Engineeringen
uws.published.cityWaterlooen
uws.published.countryCanadaen
uws.published.provinceOntarioen
uws.typeOfResourceTexten
uws.peerReviewStatusUnrevieweden
uws.scholarLevelGraduateen


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