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Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from
one of the great masters of modern architecture Adolf Loos, the
great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the
fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped
down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent,
caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of
design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to
footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a
sign of intellectual power'. Translated by Shaun Whiteside With an
epilogue by Joseph Masheck
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.
Adolf Loos (1870-1933) is recognised today as one of the great
masters of modern architecture. He did not leave a unified oeuvre
but articles scattered through journals and newspapers.
Artist and photographer Joke Robaard, originally trained in
fashion, investigates human configurations (e.g., networks of
friends or neighbors). After "directing" individuals into certain
positions and patterns in relation to one another, she photographs
them, using clothing to illustrate where connections lie and how
they constantly shift.
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