ROBERT DAWSON: ORNAMENT AND CRIME

摘要

The evolution of culture marches with the elimination of ornament from useful objects' wrote Austrian architect Adolf Loos exactly one hundred years ago in an article titled 'Ornament and Crime', in reaction to the excesses of Art Nouveau style in Central European architecture. Clearly Loos would have strong words for Robert Dawson were they to meet in his recent exhibition Ornament and Crime, for Dawson's work is richly decorative in its intelligent development of pattern and structure, and the games he plays with surface in its relation to form.