Adolf Loos (December 1870-August 1933) was a prominent architect, designer, writer, and critic born in the present-day Czech Republic (formerly the Austro-Hungarian empire). Famous for his controversial essay titled “Ornament…
Adolf Loos (1870–1933) was an Austrian architect and polemicist whose 1908 lecture “Ornament and Crime” became modern architecture’s founding manifesto against decoration. In buildings like the scandalous Looshaus opposite Vienna’s…