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The debate around ornament and its elusive nature has been crucial in the definition of fundamental turning points in history of architecture. This exhibition explains how ornament has never completely disappeared, reconnecting to its long-lost history, and demonstrating how it can still exist as an essential issue in contemporary architecture. Can ornament still be considered as integral part of architecture? Can ornament still be a quantitative and qualitative choice? Can we still imagine its precise positioning?
In recent years, ornament has frequently been associated with the realm of digital architecture and to the figurative treatment of evenly-decorated building envelopes. The risk of this banalization is a drastic loss of complexity, transforming the ornament into mere decoration.
What is ornament? opens up different angles by evoking artworks, objects, furniture, books, movies and photographs distribute in a set of six collections, transcending history and blur the boundaries among disciplines.
Urtizi and Guillermo’s participation speculates about the ultimate piece of ornament, the kerb.
The kerb is a simple demarcation between two spaces: the roadway and the sidewalk. It serves as a separation between pedestrians and cars, as a key water management tool and helps to retain the edge of the top layer of pavement.
It is a seemingly mundane object, it exemplifies the change of section specific only to urban conditions. It is a highly contested piece of urban real estate and its main importance derives from its role in fixing the minor but vital space required for the negotiation of cohabitation between humans and machines. The prototype is not about kerbs but about objectivity, trust, safety, surveillance, automation, urbanization and beauty among other topics.
The Triennale runs from 5 October – 1st December 2019