Architecture needs mechanisms that allow it to become connected to culture. It achieves this by continually capturing the forces that shape society as material

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

Comprehensively compiles a set of material systems, analyzing ways in which they can be tessellated to produce novel forms.

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