An unprecedented homage to modernist architecture from the 1920s up to the present day Ornament Is Crime is a celebration & a thought-provoking reappraisal of modernist architecture The book proposes that modernism need no longer be confined by traditional definitions & can be seen in both the iconic works of the modernist canon by Le Corbusier Mies van der Rohe & 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 & a celebration of the most important architectural movement in modern history