In his Columns of Smoke series, Juan Jose Lahuerta takes on the
enormously ambitious task of re-reading modernity, offering us
fresh ways of looking at it while drawing new links between the
ideas of architecture and ornamentation, with a special focus on
how they have been treated in print. While the first volume of
Columns of Smoke considered epoch-making architect Adolf Loos's
relationship with photography, here Lahuerta turns to the Classical
strand in Loos's architecture and to his written work-and
specifically his engagement with architectural and artistic theory.
Lahuerta pays particular attention to Loos's seminal "Ornament and
Crime," the essay that established disornamentation as the signal
feature of twentieth-century architecture. Through close analysis
of that essay he unearths the racially charged, pseudoscientific
ideas from early anthropology that underpin Loos's thinking. Sure
to be controversial, this new reading of Loos's landmark writings
calls the whole disornamentation project into question, and in the
process, it reveals a radically new perspective on a major turn in
modern design and culture.
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