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     • Adolf Loos is best-known for his 1908 essay " Ornament and Verbrechen," translated as "Ornament & Crime." This and other essays by Loos describe the suppression of decoration as necessary for modern culture to exist and evolve beyond past cultures.
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   Why is Adolf Loos important?

   • Perhaps one of the most famous instances in history was the precedent set by Adolf Loos and his desire to break away from Viennese tradition with his strong dissent of ornament in architecture in favor of simplicity, and his literary discourse that lay the cornerstone for the modernist movement in architecture.

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   Who was Adolf Loos?

   • Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was born December 10, 1870, in Brno (then Brünn), which is the South Moravian Region of what was then part of the Austria-Hungary Empire and is now the Czech Republic. He was one of four children born to Adolf and Marie Loos, but he was 9 when his sculptor/stonemason father died.

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   What happened to Adolf Loos?

   • Loos’s architectural marvels are meticulous examples of thorough and careful design. Loos passed away in Kalksburg near Vienna. Following his demise in 1933, his body was shifted to Zentralfriedhof, Vienna where he rests among other renowned artists and musicians of the city. Here is a list of his fifteen best projects 1. Café Museum | Adolf Loos

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   What was Loos doing?

   • Loos was adding layers of dark, richly grained wood, marble, silk, woven hangings and copper. Most importantly, he was working not only with a plan but with a section cut through the building, the rooms interlocking and interpenetrating.

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   Adolf Loos (December 10, 1870–August 23, 1933) was a European architect who became more famous for his ideas and writings than for his buildings. He believed that reason should determine the way we build, and he opposed the decorative Art Nouveau movement, or, as it was known in Europe, Jugendstil.

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   Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August 1933) was an influential Austrian and Czechoslovakian architect of European Modern architecture and a leading critic in the field of construction and design. Loos was known for his controversial views on the use of ornamental decoration in the architecture and design of buildings.

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   Adolf Loos (born December 10, 1870, Brno, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now in Czech Republic]—died August 23, 1933, Kalksburg, near Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian architect whose planning of private residences strongly influenced European Modernist architects after World War I.

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   Nov 28, 2021 · Perhaps one of the most famous instances in history was the precedent set by Adolf Loos and his desire to break away from Viennese tradition with his strong dissent of ornament in architecture...

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   Adolf Loos (December 10, 1870 in Brno, Moravia – August 8, 1933 in Vienna, Austria) was an early-twentieth century Viennese architect. He believed that what is beautiful must also be useful, and linked beauty and utility by returning an object to its true utilitarian value.

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   Jan 8, 2021 · In 1900 the Viennese architect Adolf Loos related his story “ The Poor Little Rich Man ”, about a wealthy man who commissioned an architect to redesign his home. The architect discarded all ...

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    Oct 8, 2013 · He considered practising architecture no better than washing the dishes, he thought the best definition of an architect a bricklayer who spoke Latin, believed so-called ‘Architecture’ generally despoiled the landscape, considered the only venue for art in architecture to be the tomb and the monument, and the best place for the architect ...