If You Could: Ornament Is Crime

If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Charles Gwathmey, Gwathmey Residence and Studio, East Hampton, New York, USA, 1967
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Richard Neutra, VDL Research I, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1932
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Luciano Kruk, Golf House, Beunos Aires, Argentina, 2015
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania, USA, 1938
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Arne Jacobsen, Siesby House, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1959
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Mount Fuji Architects, Plus, Atami, Japan, 2009
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Amyas Connell: New Farm, Grayswood, UK, 1933
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Philip Johnson, Leonhardt House, Lloyd Harbor, Long Island, New York, 1956
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Sebastian Irarrazaval Arquitectos, Casa Pedro Lira, Santiago, Chile, 2006
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Robert Mallet Stevens, Rue Mallet Stevens, Paris, France, 1932
If You Could: Ornament Is Crime
Pierre Koenig, The Stahl House (Case Study House No. 22), Los Angeles, California, USA, 1959

With the upcoming publication of Ornament Is Crime, we’ve been musing over our favourite features. From Richard Neutra’s VDL residences to Luciano Kruk’s Argentine Golf House, these are the modern masterpieces where we’d move to… if we could.

Written by The Modern House founders, Matt Gibberd and Albert Hill, Ornament Is Crime is a visual manifesto that offers a celebration and thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architecture.

“It demonstrates the sheer diversity of Modernism but also it’s main characteristics, which have remained largely consistent. We have placed houses from different eras alongside each other to show how architects have continued to translate the principles of Modernism in a remarkably similar way,” says Matt Gibberd.

The book examines iconic works by Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius alongside some of the best contemporary architects of the twenty-first century, arguing for a continuous progression of the movement from its roots through to the present day.

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