Symposia
Natures of Ornament
The symposium Natures of Ornament is convened as a Festschrift, in celebration of Kent Bloomer’s indispensable intellectual and pedagogical contribution to the Yale School of Architecture over the last fifty years. Bloomer’s dedication to the design and thinking of ornament in architecture has influenced academics, collaborators, and students that include architects, historians, musicians, artists, philosophers, and biologists, among others, many of whom will come together to explore the diverse meaning of ornament in contemporary discourses. What links ornament to the broader human sciences and the natural world? What are ornament’s theoretical stakes in the intellectual and material history of our own discipline? What is ornament’s place in the pedagogy of architectural education, its methods and practices? In addressing these questions, the symposium aims to reorient the discourse of ornament from a contentious vestige of modernity toward its active relationship to architecture, landscape, urbanism, and sense of place in the world.
Symposium program
Introduction 10:00 a.m.
Deborah Berke
Yale University
Sunil Bald
Yale University
Histories
Kurt Forster
Yale University
Mari Hvattum
The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
Stacey Sloboda
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Cosmos
Guru Dev Kaur Khalsa
Architect
Richard Prum
Yale University
Willie Ruff
Yale University
Legacies 3 p.m.
Douglas Cooper
Carnegie Mellon University
Emer O’Daly
Architect
Michael Young
The Cooper Union
Closing
Thomas Beeby
Yale University
Kent Bloomer
Yale University
Turner Brooks
Yale University
Reception 6:00-7:00 p.m.
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