PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Body, Memory, and Architecture, Yale University Press, 1977, Kent Bloomer (principal author) and Charles W. Moore, Yale University Press, 1977; Translation: Japanese 1980, German 1980, Italian 1981, Spanish 1982, Chinese 1983, Polish 2000.
The Nature of Ornament, Rhythm and Metamorphosis in Architecture, Kent Bloomer, W. W. Norton, 2000.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
*Charles Moore, Buildings and Projects 1949-1986, ed. by Eugene J. Johnson, Rizzoli, 1986, “Form, Shape, and Order in the Work of Charles Moore.”
Architects’ People, ed. by Russ Ellis and Dana Cuff, Oxford University Press, 1989, “Robert Kerr: Architect of Bearwood.”
Samuel Yellin Metalwork at Yale, catalogue of exhibition at the Yale University School of Architecture, 1990, “Samuel Yellin and Efflorescence.”
Turner Brooks: Work, Princeton Architectural Press, 1995, “Figures in the Landscape.”
Artists on Art, Observations by Yale faculty on selections from the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University Art Gallery,1999, “Peter Paul Rubens, Hero and Leander.”
*Biophilic Design: The Theory, Science and Practice of Bringing Buildings to Life, ed.by Stephen R. Kellert, Judith Heerwagen, and Martin Mador, Wiley, 2008, “The Picture Window: The Problem of Viewing Nature Through Glass.”
Architects & Mimetic Rivalry: René Girard, Léon Krier, Samir Younés, Kent Bloomer, ed. by Samir Younés, Papadakis, 2012, “The Sacrifice of Ornament in the 20thCentury.”
*Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination, ed. by Donald Landes and Azucena Cruz-Pierre, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, “Place(s) of Ornament.”
Kent Bloomer Nature as Ornament, ed. by Sunil Bald and Gary Huafan He, Yale School of Architecture, c2020, “Theory and Design of Ornament.”
ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
*Carnegie Review, no. 8, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1966, “Public Monuments,” “The Rodef Shalom Bas-Relief.”
American Scientist, NY, Braziller, 1972, book review: Arts of the Environment, ed. by George Kepes.
*Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 29, no. 1, [1975], “Prologue” and “The Body Matrix.”
Architectural Record, N.Y., Viking, 1976, book review: The Bathroom by Alexander Kira.
*Interiors, July 1979, “Have You Heard of Haptic?; It’s the key to interiors that feel warm and cozy.”
*Dichotomy, vol. 3, no. 2, 1980, University of Detroit School of Architecture, “The Exclusion of Sculpture and Painting from Buildings.”
Interiors, March 1980, building review: “Knoll Showroom, Boston, by Gwathmey Siegel.”
*Perspecta 17, Yale School of Architecture,1980, “The Personality of a Ruin” and “Alfombres de Asserin.”
*Dichotomy, vol. 4, no. 1, 1981, University of Detroit School of Architecture, “Leaves of Architecture.”
*Interiors, March 1983, “Ornamentalism in Architecture.”
Drawing, the International Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 1983, New York Drawing Society, book review: The Wider Sea by John Dixon Hunt, Viking, 1982.
*Places, vol. 2, no.4, 1985, “Shadows in Ruskin’s Lamp of Power.”
*Perspecta 22, 1986, Yale School of Architecture, “Multiple Essences.”
*Audubon Magazine, vol. 89, no. 1, 1987, “Urban Animals.”
*Perspecta 23, 1987, Yale School of Architecture and Rizzoli, “Botanical Ornament: the Continuity and the Transformation of a Tradition.”
*Crit 18, Student AIA, 1987, “Memory Units and the Poetics of Time.”
*CRIT 21, Student AIA, Fall 1988, “The Hybrid Nature of Ornament.”
*OZ, vol. 12, 1990, Kansas State University, College of Architecture and Design, “The Mnemonic Function of Physics Wall.”
*Places, vol. 7, no. 4, 1992, “The Confounding Issue of Collaboration Between Artists and Architects.”
California Blacksmith, September/October 1992, “Samuel Yellin and Efflorescence.”
*Inland Architect, March/April 1992, “Spatial Language: the Ornament of the Harold Washington Library.”
*Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute, On Common Ground,”no. 5, 1995, “Linkages.”
Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Permanence of Memory Maine Veterans and Civilians Remember World War II, 1998, “The Making of Memorials.”
*L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, 333, mars-avril, Paris, 2001, “Genèse de l’ornement;” “The Formation of Ornament.”
*306090, vol. 10, 2006, “A Critical Distinction Between Decoration and Ornament.”
*Swiss Architecture Museum, no. 5, 2008, “Re-sampling Ornament, Ornament or Decoration?”
*T3xture, no. 2, October 2015, “Ornament is Splendid! A Conversation with Kent Bloomer, Ornamenter. ”
T3xture, no. 2, October 2015, “Ornament as Distinct from Decoration, ” with John Kresten Jespersen, Ph.D.
Paprika! Hands On!, September 18, 2015 (Fold VII), “A Conversation with Kent Bloomer, Jessica Angel and Dorian Booth.”
*Architext V, Ariel University, School of Architecture, 2015, “The Façade in Architecture.”
*DonnerInstitute, Approaching Religion, vol. 6, no. 2, 2016, “Art Approaching Science and Religion,” “[The Greeks] Called it KOSMOS, Which Means Ornament. ”
*T3xture no. 4, 2019, “Ornament and Harbor.”