Ornament is crime : modernist architecture / Matt Gibberd, Albert Hill.
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 Gro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York, NY :
Phaidon Press Limited,
2017.
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Physical Description: | 223 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| ISBN: | 0714874167 9780714874166 |