Robert Levit writes on the return of ornament in the Spring issue of Harvard Design Magazine.

Levit's article "Contemporary Ornament: The Return of the Symbolic Repressed" considers what the role of ornament is in contemporary architecture, under what circumstances has it returned again, and what is at stake in ornament's current forms.

Harvard Design Magazine:

http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/publications/hdm/back/28_Levit.html