#adolf loos
Clean simple lines with no decoration can look great as an aesthetic choice - see for example Bauhaus or some Brutalist buildings - but when a guy wearing a tie AND a vest AND a moustache says that any ornamentation at all is a crime, I tend to think he’s overclaiming.
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Adolf Loos: “ornament is crime.”
Looshaus, Michaelerplatz Vienna, 1910.
Chicago Tribune tower
Chicago, USA
1922
Adolf Loos (1870–1933)
Oskar KOKOSCHKA (1886-1980)
“Der Wiener Baumeister Adolf LOOS” (1909)
Öl auf Leinwand / Oil on canvas
Berlin Nationalgalerie - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin -
Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Adolf “Ornament is Crime” Loos
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- VIDEOS SOBRE ADOLF LOOS /VIDEOS ABOUT ADOLF LOOS:
ADOLF LOOS CON LA FAMILIA MÜLLER / Adolf Loos with the Müllers
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- DESCRIPTION: Hans Moller, a textile businessman, commissioned Adolf Loos to design a house on an idylllic plot surrounded by hills that he owned in the capital of Austria.
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- LOCATION: Vienna,Austria
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- CONSTRUCTION DATE: 1928 - 1929
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- VIDEOS: ( 01 )
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(Photo source: flickr, trevor.patt)
