[The Greeks] 'called it KOSMOS, which means ornament'
Bloomer, Kent (2016)
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Kent Bloomer, Yale University
Kent Bloomer (MFA) is the founder and principal of the Bloomer Studio in New Haven Connecticut and a professor on the Faculty of Architecture at Yale University. He studied physics and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kent Bloomer (MFA) is the founder and principal of the Bloomer Studio in New Haven Connecticut and a professor on the Faculty of Architecture at Yale University. He studied physics and architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tiivistelmä
The title of this article is a statement quoted from a translation of The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 615–630 ad. The article proposes that the content of ornament is primordially derived from the eternal motions found in the macrocosm, a cosmology of ornament that looks beyond the extreme subjectivity that dominated modern art in the late twentieth century. The findings are rooted in the history and major theories of ornament, to be buttressed by examples of ornament-design throughout the ages. Finally, the article reviews the author’s own work in that light.