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Ornament is crime : modernist architecture / Matt Gibberd, Albert Hill.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Phaidon Press Limited, 2017Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780714874166
  • 0714874167
Subject(s):
Contents:
The modern house
Ornament is crime
Quotations
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. Featured buildings by architects of the 20th century : Adolf Loos ; Alvar Aalto ; Arne Jacobsen ; Charles & Ray Eames ; Criag Elwood ; Eero Saarinen ; Frank Lloyd Wright ; Harry Seidler ; Le Corbusier ; Line Bo Bardi ; Marcel Breuer ; Mies van der Rohe ; Oscar Niemeyer ; Richard Neutra -- Contemporary architects bringing Modernist architecture to the 21st century : Alberto Campos Baeza ; Carlos Ferrater ; David Chipperfield ; John Pawson ; Mack Scogin Merrill Elam ; Marcio Kogan ; Patkau Architects ; Peter Stutchbury ; Sean Godsell ; Shigeru Ban ; Smiljan Radic ; Sou Fujimoto Tadao Ando ; Werner Sobek.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The modern house

Ornament is crime

Quotations

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. Featured buildings by architects of the 20th century : Adolf Loos ; Alvar Aalto ; Arne Jacobsen ; Charles & Ray Eames ; Criag Elwood ; Eero Saarinen ; Frank Lloyd Wright ; Harry Seidler ; Le Corbusier ; Line Bo Bardi ; Marcel Breuer ; Mies van der Rohe ; Oscar Niemeyer ; Richard Neutra -- Contemporary architects bringing Modernist architecture to the 21st century : Alberto Campos Baeza ; Carlos Ferrater ; David Chipperfield ; John Pawson ; Mack Scogin Merrill Elam ; Marcio Kogan ; Patkau Architects ; Peter Stutchbury ; Sean Godsell ; Shigeru Ban ; Smiljan Radic ; Sou Fujimoto Tadao Ando ; Werner Sobek.