Afternoon Talk: Architectural Ornament: A look behind the curtain

Afternoon Talk: A series of lectures questioning the role materials play in constructing and re-constructing spatial experiences of users but also of architects and designers. The lecture series is hosted by the programme Spatial Design and Center for Interior Studies. 

In this lecture, Oliver Domeisen, London-based Swiss architect, ornamentalist, curator and academic will discuss ornamentation and the textile origin of certain expressions in an architectural context as well as presenting the contemporary discourse about ornament and tectonics today.

Oliver Domeisen - bio
Oliver Domeisen AADipl is a London-based Swiss architect, ornamentalist, curator and academic. He is a History & Theory Lecturer and MArch Thesis advisor at UCL Bartlett (since 2012) and guest lecturer at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at Innsbruck University.

Since 2001 he has taught BArch and MArch design studios, and History and Theory courses, as a Unit Master at the Architectural Association, Visiting Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Lecturer at Innsbruck University, invited speaker at ETH Zurich (digital fabrication/robotics), Yale School of Architecture etc.

He is a former project architect for Zaha Hadid, V&A Curator of Contemporary Architecture & Urbanism, and produced the “Re-sampling Ornament” exhibition and catalogue for the Swiss Architecture Museum Basel and Arkitekturmuseet Stockholm. He lectures and publishes internationally
(see https://oliverdomeisen.academia.edu/research#papers).