Ornament today : digital material structural The debates on ornament have reignited. As the digital age dawns ornament the very thing that modernity attempted to abolish at the beginning of the machine age is making a comeback in design architecture and art. The return of ornament is an indication of a fundamental change. Opinions diverge when it comes to ornament but less in the sense of taste than that the central formative questions crystallise on it. Ornament is the battleground of theory and practice The debates on ornament have reignited. As the digital age dawns ornament the very thing that modernity attempted to abolish at the beginning of the machine age is making a comeback in design architecture and art. The return of ornament is an indication of a fundamental change. Opinions diverge when it comes to ornament but less in the sense of taste than that the central formative questions crystallise on it. Ornament is the battleground of theory and practice. P. [1] flap of cover