ORNAMENT IS CRIME / MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE Pierre Léonforté While echoing the creative editions

While echoing the creative editions between the brand and its favorite artists

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

Franco Maria Ricci—publisher

Editor : FLAMMARION

from the past to the present day

ORNAMENT IS CRIME / MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE Pierre Léonforté While echoing the creative editionsAn 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