An Austrian architect and theorist, born 1870 in Brno and died 1933 near Vienna, whose stripped-down aesthetic and rejection of applied ornament were a founding polemic of architectural modernism. His built work, including the Looshaus and the Villa Muller, is as influential as his writing, and his own richly finished interiors in fine natural materials are themselves the subject of a standing open question about how they square with his own argument.
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Defining ContributionDelivered the lecture Ornament and Crime in 1910, published 1913, arguing that ornament was a sign of cultural backwardness; designed the Looshaus in Vienna (1910 to 1912) and the Villa Muller in Prague, completed 1928, developing the spatial planning method he called Raumplan. 1 Connections
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Loos's rejection of ornament prefigured modernist architecture
Loos delivered Ornament and Crime as a lecture in 1910 and published it in 1913; it remains his defining theoretical statement.
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Loos was inspired by Sullivan and the Chicago School, approving Sullivan's form follows function idea in his own writing.
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the evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornamentation from objects of everyday use
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