Urban Design：Ornament and Decoration-EPILOGUE.pdfVIP

EPILOGUE 9 INTRODUCTION colours and details to be used in certain areas of the city. Such documents are not meant to Chapter 9 is presented as an epilogue, ‘a short constrain the imagination of the creative designer in speech or poem at the end, especially of a play’. It the pursuit of his or her client’s requirements: they is a personal statement by the editor of the series. are designed to focus the attention of all developers This essay is presented as an epilogue to retain the on the broader needs of the city and its community. integrity of the original work, which is the result of Clearly it would be preferable for documents such the pooled insights of the three original authors. as the design brief to be prepared by professionals The aim of the essay is to clarify the intentions of with an understanding of the principles involved in the book. This book does not set out to advance the art of decorating the city: such professionals the cause of ornate city architecture nor to provide should also have a flexible mind which appreciates a manual of good decorative design. The aim of the the work of the innovative designer whose work book is much more modest: it presents one starting challenges those principles. The aim of this book point for a rational discussion about the nature of, and the others in the series is to explore the nature and the need for, ornament and decoration in the of the principles of urban design. city. For this purpose an attempt was made to find The main body of th