Adolf Loos Quotes


Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.


Citations

Loos, Adolf. "Rules for Those Who Build in the Mountains." Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays, translated by Michael Mitchell, Ariadne Press, 1998, p. 171.

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Adolf Loos
Adolf Loos
  • Born: December 10, 1870
  • Died: August 23, 1933
  • Nationality: Austrian, Austrian, Hungarian
  • Profession: Architect

Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture. His essay Ornament and Crime advocated smooth and clear surfaces in contrast to the lavish decorations of the fin de siècle, as well as the more modern aesthetic principles of the Vienna Secession, exemplified in his design of Looshaus, Vienna. Loos became a pioneer of modern architecture and contributed a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture and design and developed the "Raumplan" (literally spatial plan) method of arranging interior spaces, exemplified in Villa Müller in Prague.