雕塑家肯特·布卢姆（Kent Bloomer，生于1935年）最**的作品是纽约中央公园的路灯（1982年）、休斯敦莱斯大学贝克厅的装饰品（1997年），以及他在耶鲁大学巴斯图书馆入口亭和斯特林纪念图书馆楼梯间入口的作品（2007年），他不仅影响了以当代建筑实践中的装饰为中心的讨论，而且激励了包括历史、音乐、艺术、哲学和生物学等一系列学科的发展。来自不同领域的学者以回顾布卢姆的作品为出发点，将装饰视为一种社会和艺术现象，探讨了他对装饰历史的贡献。通过布卢姆的开创性作品这一视角，本书将对装饰的论述从一个有争议的现代性遗迹重新定位为其与建筑、景观、城市主义和地方感的积极关系。

A celebration of renowned sculptor and educator Kent Bloomer’s work, examining the role of ornament in contemporary architecture and society

Best known for New York’s Central Park luminaires (1982), the ornamentation at Rice University’s Baker Hall in Houston (1997), and his work on Yale University’s Bass Library entrance pavilion and Sterling Memorial Library stairwell entrance (2007), the sculptor Kent Bloomer (b. 1935) has not only influenced the discussion around ornament in contemporary architectural practice, but has inspired developments in a range of disciplines that include history, music, art, philosophy, and biology. With a retrospective look at Bloomer’s work as a point of departure, scholars from a variety of different fields explore his contributions to the history of ornament as both a social and an artistic phenomenon. Through the lens of Bloomer’s groundbreaking oeuvre, this volume reorients the discourse of ornament from a contentious vestige of modernity toward its active relationship to architecture, landscape, urbanism, and a sense of place.