La ornamentación en la definición arquitectónicacontextos e influencias

Resumo

The role of ornament in architecture has varied over the centuries. Its undisputed existence, the intensity of its presence or the approaches that relegated it to a minor or nonexistent role have been taking place at the same time as other technical or aesthetic issues in the field of architecture. However, we have to move away from cyclical approaches which have been organized around the ideas of aesthetic exhaustion. The ideas regarding this aspect of the formalist historiography do not seem to be valid either. The role of ornament in the architectural fact has been determined in the vast majority of cases by social and ideological context, which has embraced artistic creation and architecture in particular. From the eighteenth century on, political and, especially religious determining factors give way to a different type of grounds which are based on reason and architectural facts, but bearing in mind the ideological and philosophical determining factors, which makes this moment a turning point. This will be the beginning of a new and particularly dynamic and exciting way, ti which technique, history and politics will be added as new assets in architectural discourse. Ornament will become a basic part, because of its presence, its absence or its character, in the architectural definition until mid twentieth century.