ORNAMENT SIMULACRUM IN THE ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION

Re-thinking the Concept of “Ornament ” in Architectural Design

The concept of ornament has emerged as a result of the existence of the human being and its relation to its environment. Ornament of objects, which aim at adding qualitative features to objects alongside their quantitative states, is a practice that is as old as humanity. Within this process of the individual’s efforts in thinking, designing, creating, and communicating, one comes across orname...

a study of geometric pattern in architectural ornament in gonabad, malek-zuzan and foroumad mosques

in early islamic era, architecture in khorasan was followed the common features of early islamic architecture style; such as simplicity in construction and ornament. in the later periods, especially in seljuq dynasty, the application of brick, stucco, tiling and inscription had been used more in architectural ornament. then, in the short period under the khwarizmshahid dynasty in khorasan, two-...

The size of a melanin-based plumage ornament correlates with glucocorticoid receptor concentrations in the skin of that ornament.

Glucocorticoid hormones such as corticosterone (CORT) play crucial roles in many physiological processes. CORT's actions are primarily mediated via binding to two receptors (glucocorticoid receptors (GRs) and mineralocorticoid receptors (MRs)) in different target tissues. CORT receptors can be independently regulated from circulating hormone titres, from tissue to tissue and even within differe...

The British Empire Exhibition

Strategies for the exploration of ornament performance

Performing music is a creative process, even if notated music is performed. It is creative in the sense that performers have to establish and refine an interpretation of the music, given the under-specification of western notation and the aesthetic demands to provide an individual, but coherent, interpretation. Part of the practice is to explore interpretations and refine a chosen interpretatio...