Details

Subject(s)

• Modern movement (Architecture) [Browse]
• Architecture, Domestic—20th century—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Architecture, Domestic—21st century—Pictorial works [Browse]

Author

• Hill, Albert (Writer on architecture) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Photobooks [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• photobooks [Browse]

Summary note

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.

Notes

• Includes index.
• "A beautifully curated visual manifesto featuring hundreds of the most inspiring modernist houses ever built - from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day"--Cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The modern house
• Ornament is crime
• Quotations.

Other title(s)

Modernist architecture

ISBN

• 0714874167 ((hardback))
• 9780714874166 ((hardback))

LCCN

2017385160

OCLC

961410372

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