Background
Bloomer, Kent Cress was born on May 31, 1935 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Son of Harold Franklin Bloomer and Vera Allene Cress.
( A treasure trove of ideas and encouragement for archite...)
A treasure trove of ideas and encouragement for architects looking for alternatives to the severity of modernism and graceless postmodernism. The purpose of ornament-to articulate a realm of the imagination-is as important as it is misunderstood. Kent Bloomer, an outstanding sculptor and ornamenter whose work adorns the Harold Washington Library, Chicago, Reagan National Airport, Washington, DC, and other buildings, maintains that ornament is neither pure "art" in the contemporary sense of the word nor mere decoration, but rather a category unto itself, with its own unique language. He describes the key elements of ornament, rhythm and metamorphosis, and shows their application in such figures as the foliated scroll. Illustrated with the author's evocative line drawings and photographs of ornament from ancient Greece to the modern cityscape, the book is a hymn to the riches of architectural ornament. 250 photos and line drawings
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Bloomer, Kent Cress was born on May 31, 1935 in Mount Vernon, New York, United States. Son of Harold Franklin Bloomer and Vera Allene Cress.
Master of Fine Arts, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960.
Assistant professor Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 1961—1966. Professor Yale School Architecture, New Haven, since 1966. Principal Bloomer Studio, New Haven, since 1964.
Speaker in field.
( A treasure trove of ideas and encouragement for archite...)
Executive committee Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, 1993—2007. Fellow: Whitney Center for Humanities.
Married Leonor Golay Bloomer, June 13, 1959. Children: Mark Clifford, May Bloomer Bartels.