Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture
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Ornament is Crime: Modernist Architecture
By Albert Hill and Matt Gibberd
"Ornament is Crime journeys between the decades to liberate Modernism from its traditional definitions and proposes its continuing presence in the in the work of 21st century architects...[With] elegant spreads and striking examples...An intriguing manifesto...The use of quotes from cultural figures as diverse as Leonard Cohen and Kazimir Malevich here reframes Modernism as a timeless dialogue."—Aesthetica
"Spectacular...Beautifully illustrated...[A] thought provoking compendium."—New Design
"A vivid and unpedantic presentation of modernist houses with a fresh wind blowing among them."—Interior Design
An unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present day.
Ornament Is Crime is a celebration and a thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architecture. The book proposes that modernism need no longer be confined by traditional definitions, and can be seen in both the iconic works of the modernist canon by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and Walter Gropius, as well as in the work of some of the best contemporary architects of the twenty-first century. This book is a visual manifesto and a celebration of the most important architectural movement in modern history.
Hardcover
224 pages
Phaidon Press, 2017
10 x 1 x 11.5 inches
ISBN 9780714874166
Architecture, Modernism