ORNAMENT IS CRIME / MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE Pierre Léonforté and above all because he

and above all because he places the person at the heart of his work

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

die wir heute nutzen

chaque civilisation l'a développé à sa manière : en Egypte

ORNAMENT IS CRIME / MODERNIST ARCHITECTURE Pierre Léonforté and above all because heAn 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