Ornament und Vergebung

Ornament and Forgiveness: What does this mean? Does historicism need to apologize for something? Or does historicist architecture deserve our apology? Should we apologize for how we treat it today? Forgiveness is good. In retrospect, we can see and perhaps even forgive how, during the GDR era and shortly after the reunification, the houses were handled due to high renovation needs and pressures. But can we look at pre-modern architecture with different eyes today to recognize and assess what could be expressed through historicist architectural designs? It seems possible to gain a perspective that not only promotes the future preservation and handling of historical substance but also sharpens our general view of the relationship between architecture and color. This is an attempt to advocate for understanding through fresh seeing and comprehension.