Süsleme gerçekten bir suç mudur: modern hareket'de süsleme kullanımı

The correlation between ornament and architecture has been a symbiotic relationship which continued for centuries. Although after the changes started with the Modern Movement, the link between ornamentation and architecture had a disruption which occurred until recently with the postmodern architectural discourse. The idea and the roots of modern movement has been highly influenced by universality, functionality and rationality which was born at the industrial revolution. Furthermore, the aim of modern movement was to establish a set of universal principles guided by rational and scientific thinking, therefore the modernist approach stood against the context that referred to the past and tradition. With this reason, Modern Movement has often been accused of failing to re-define the culturally inherited patterns under the unchangeable principles of rational thinking. However, as the built environment started to become standardized and homogeneous due to the rational and scientific principles applied in architecture the idea of universalism could not be adopted as the ideal principle especially in the societies with a strong tangible and intangible cultural heritage. People need to connect themselves with the environment that they live in to live comfortably, and at the same time to have the sense of belonging by the impact of the cultural memories they have. Therefore, in reality, ornament might not be as much of a crime as Adolf Loos equated.