A graphic guide to ornaments in the 20th century, this work unveils the function of ornament as the agent for specific effects, dismantling the idea that orname

A graphic guide to ornaments of 20th century building envelopes.

"One of the best-designed architecture books to appear in recent memory . . ., handsomely illustrated with a fuller selection of historical views of Sullivan's

This text is a wide-ranging consideration of the cultural and symbolic significance of ornament, its rejection by modernism and its subsequent reinvention. Tril