The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos
In: New German Critique, Jg. 33 (2006), S. 41-62
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Through much of the twentieth century, the Austrian architect and critic Adolf Loos was best known for "Ornament and Crime," his short, barbed denuncia tion of decoration.1 Presented first as a lecture and then published as an essay in 1908, "Ornament and Crime" was a distillation of ideas Loos had begun developing in newspaper articles during the 1890s. It has often been noted that Loos's vituperative masterpiece had a subterranean influence on the giants of high modernist architecture.2 Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius credited Loos with being the first to advocate the radical elimination of all ornamen tation in buildings. Loos's writing as a whole is thus often read as one point on the time line of architectural modernism's development.3 Certainly, Loos encouraged such a reading. He appears to have scrupulously edited, revised
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The Cosmopolitan Geography of Adolf Loos
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Purdy, Daniel |
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Zeitschrift: | New German Critique, Jg. 33 (2006), S. 41-62 |
Veröffentlichung: | Duke University Press, 2006 |
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ISSN: | 1558-1462 (print) ; 0094-033X (print) |
DOI: | 10.1215/0094033x-2006-010 |
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