Adolf Loos (December 10, 1870 in Brno, Moravia-August 23, 1933 in Kalksburg near Vienna, Austria) was an early-20th century Viennese architect. Loos was a Czechoslovak citizen. Wikipedia
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Adolf Loos was not the finest architect of the century. But amongst twentieth-century architects, he was probably the only one (with the possible exception of Le Corbusier ) to be a major writer. ... Loos would have regarded such ambitions as incompre www.studio-international.co.uk/archive/loos_1973_186_957.asp
"When I want to eat a piece of gingerbread, I choose a piece that is plain, not a piece shaped like a heart, or a baby, or a cavalryman, covered over and over with decoration." That is architect and theorist Adolf Loos, writing in his essay "Ornament and www.stuttercut.org/hungry/archives/essays/000204.php
