Reading Ornament and Crime..
Wouldn’t it be fantastic if architecture started getting really heavy handed and exploitive with ornament again, if only as a test of its own limits? We recently started working with parametrics in studio and I could really envision technology provoking a new sort of ornament that’s no longer considered superfluous, but rather the most economically efficient way to engender delight, complexity, and meaning. It’s now quite possible to generate, fabricate, and apply an almost perfect order from what was once in the realm of impossibility (because of issues of time, resources, and a means of production). If modernity is about complexity (an assumed consensus) and the added order of ornament increases the difficulty of the discipline, then doesn’t it seem like the next logical place for architecture to go?
Just a thought…
