Adolf Loos
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Adolf Loos (10 December 1870 – 23 August, 1933) was one of the most important and influential Austria and Czechoslovak architects of European Modern architecture. In his essay "Ornament and Crime" he repudiated the florid style of the Vienna Secession, the Austrian version of Art Nouveau. In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture.
Born in 1870 in Brno, Moravia, Loos was only nine when his stonemason father...
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