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Nov 15, 1997 · Ornament and Crime contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide range of areas, from architecture and furniture, to clothes and jewelery, pottery, plumbing, and printing; others are polemics on craft education and training, and on design in general ...
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Feb 13, 2024 · Ornament and crime : selected essays. by. Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933. Publication date. 1998. Topics. Decorative arts -- Europe -- History -- 19th century, Decorative arts -- Europe -- History -- 20th century. Publisher. Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press.
Sep 1, 1997 · Adolf Loos. Ornament and Crime contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide range of areas, from architecture and furniture, to clothes and jewelery, pottery, plumbing, and printing; others are polemics on craft education and training, and on ...
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May 30, 2019 · Ornament and Crime. Adolf Loos. Penguin UK, May 30, 2019 - Architecture - 352 pages. Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great...
His 1908 essay 'Ornament and Crime', mocked by an age in love with its accessories, has come to be recognised as a seminal work in combating the aesthetic imperialism of the turn of the century....
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Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity.
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His 1908 essay 'Ornament and Crime', mocked by an age in love with its accessories, has come to be recognised as a seminal work in combating the aesthetic imperialism of the turn of the century. Today Loos is recognised as one of the great masters of modern architecture. (source: Nielsen Book Data)
