Adolf Loos
Architect
1870-12-10 – 1933-08-23
Adolf Loos was an Austrian architect and influential critic of ornament in modern architecture.
Books by Adolf Loos
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Quotes by Adolf Loos
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Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
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The Potemkin city of which I wish to speak here is none other than our dear Vienna herself.
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