Tabula Rasa - The Clean Slate

Abstract

The initial focus for this report was to investigate the detail as the ornament in current architectural works. However, in order to achieve this I found myself investigating the discourse surrounding ornamentation. Consequently, the following discussion begins by unveiling the ornament so that its qualities can be seen as inherent in the detail. I have then chosen the work of Herzog & de Meuron to explore the detail as their architecture exhibits the qualities most explicitly.