100 Day Studio: Irénée Scalbert - Ornament and politics

Day 05 of the 100 Day Studio: To date the rehabilitation of ornament has been assimilated with digital techniques and it has not been accompanied by a discernment in the art of decorative patterns. Irénée presents how the past offers many examples in which ornament was central to the purpose of architecture and to the conception of the good life. Irénée Scalbert is an architectural critic and historian based in London. He is the author of A Right to Difference: The Architecture of Jean Renaudie (2004), Never Modern (2013) and A Real Living Contact with the Things Themselves (2018).

100 DAY STUDIO
The 100 Day Studio is a new series of online lectures, interviews, building tours and panel discussions, organised by The Architecture Foundation. For 100 weekdays from Monday April 6th 2020 to Thursday August 27th 2020, the 100 Day Studio will host many of best architects and architectural thinkers in the world, broadcast live and uploaded here on this channel. The curriculum for the week ahead will be announced each Friday at architecturefoundation.org.uk/news/100-day-studio