Book of Donmon Teith

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

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

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

"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.