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 jewellery, pottery, plumbing, and printing; others
are polemics on craft education and training, and on design in
general. Loos, the great cultural reformer and moralist in the
history of European architecture and design was always a
'revolutionary against the revolutionaries'. With his assault on
Viennese arts and crafts and his conflict with bourgeois morality,
he managed to offend the whole country. 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.
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