Auditorium 2
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53
1435 København K
Institute of Architecture and Design, KADK, invites you to the International Lecture Series Fall 2018/Spring 2019 "The Room of Things".
The lecture explores the role of the cornice in the architecture of the interior, by looking at the mid-eighteenth century discussion about ornament and its origins. In particular, it will discuss how authors like Laugier and Boffrand view the relationship between interior and exterior ornament, and how these views betray unease with or enthusiasm for the expressive potential of the cornice. These attitudes will be mapped against the phenomenon of the rococo, and the way it privileges secondary elements of architectural composition, such as cornices, over tectonic elements like columns and walls.
About Maarten
Maarten Delbeke works on the history and theory of art and architecture from the early modern period up to the present. He has published amongst others on baroque sculpture and architecture, the primitive hut, theories of ornament in the 17th and 18th century, and the reception of mannerism and baroque in the 20th century. He is the founding editor-in-chief of Architectural Histories, the journal of the European Architectural History Networkx
Maartens Titel: Full professor, holds the chair in the history and theory of architecture at the ETH Zürich.
