ORNAMENT IS CRIME / MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE Pierre Léonforté Editor : FLAMMARION

Editor : FLAMMARION

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec : ''Each shape is cut in a clay plate

professeur et directeur du laboratoire de recherche (le LACTH) à l'École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Lille

These plastic assemblages form abstract compositions that play on combinations of varied shapes and colors

ORNAMENT IS CRIME / MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE Pierre Léonforté Editor : FLAMMARIONAn 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