Ornament and Class

This groundbreaking study examines the intricate relationship between the rise of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie and the emergence of modern architecture, exploring this connection through major intellectual and theoretical works while also analyzing their tangible manifestations in buildings and architectural projects.

Gary Huafan He is assistant professor and researcher at the School of Art and Archaeology, Department of Art History at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China. His primary research focuses on the intersection of architecture and theories of modernity, with particular interest in forms of naturality, culture, class, and social identity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and the United States.

1. Introduction: Ornament and Class 2. The Limits of Bourgeois Architecture 3. H-tel Guilbert and the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime 4. Work and Romantic Labor 5. Architecture for the Laboring Classes 6. The Polemic of Ornament 7. Architecture as Global Ornament 8. Architectural History as Bourgeois History