The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from utilitarian objects.
Adolf Loos Quotes
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
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| Birth: | 10th December, 1870 |
| Death: | 23rd August, 1933 |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Profession: | Architect |
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Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austro-Hungarian architect. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, with the Austrian version of Art Nouveau. In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture.
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