Essay1908
Ornament and Crime
Adolf Loos
Argues that applying decoration to everyday objects and buildings is a sign of cultural backwardness, and that a modern, evolved culture expresses itself through unornamented form alone.
Architecture & Built Environment · Modern & Contemporary Architecture
Modernism in Architecture
A topic within Modern & Contemporary Architecture, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
Reading on Modernism in Architecture
22 works
Book1932
Modern Architecture: International Exhibition
Henry-Russell Hitchcock & Philip Johnson
Defines modern architecture as a coherent international style built on volume over mass, regularity over symmetry and the absence of applied ornament, rather than a loose family of engineering experiments — the MoMA catalogue that coined the term.
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