The recent reinscription of the place of ornament within architectural practices has reformulated the existing hierarchies between form, function, structure and material. These reinterpretation have exposed but a profound shift in the role of the Ornament, by which ornamental motifs are no longer merely decorative or geometrical but implicate the formal, material and structural forces by virtue of their specific deployment within the architectural artifact, as well as the technologies involved in their fabrication.
For architecture, new potentials arise out of this new synthetic relationship between ornament, form and material.