is the decorative terracotta frieze, executed by the
sculptor and painter, Schadow, that adorned and defined
Karl Friedrich Schinkel���s premodern masterpiece, the
Bauakademie (1832-36) in Berlin. This frieze, classical in
style, depicted in relief plaques the story of architecture:
������the degeneration and reemergence of the art of
building; the life of an architect, his virtues, his tools.��� The
second artifact of which I am thinking in which ornament
heightens both meaning and function is Augustus Welby
Pugin���s 1851 bread plate for Minton, in ocher, terracotta
and cobalt encaustic, emblazoned round its rim with the
inscription ���WASTE NOT WANT NOT.��� While Pugin���s Gothic
vocabulary opposes Schinkel���s romantic classicism, both
architects were purists consumed by tectonics���in plain
terms, the organization that keeps a building up. And,
both were fluent in the language of ornament. H
Detail from Wayside Manor, Franck Lohsen Architects
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