Note from the editor:

The ornament is back, but now on the scale of the building as a whole. A letter of the alphabet, a dress, a rock formation or an airplane – the diversity of forms the new architecture can take is almost infinite. In Building as Ornament, Michiel van Raaij, in ten interviews, traces back how this new architecture first emerged in the early 1990s and how it has matured at the start of the twenty-first century.