Loos' stripped-down buildings influenced the minimal massing of modern architecture, and stirred controversy. In his essays, Loos used provocative catchphrases and has become noted for one particular essay/manifesto entitled Ornament and Crime, spoken first in 1910.In this essay, he explored the idea that the progress of culture is associated with the deletion of ornament from everyday objects, and that it was therefore a crime to force craftsmen or builders to waste their time on ornamentation that served to hasten the time when an object would become obsolete. In Spoken into the Void, published in 1900, Loos attacked the Vienna Secession, at a time when the movement was at its height. In this and many other essays he contributed to the elaboration of a body of theory and criticism of Modernism in architecture. He was influential in European Modern architecture, and in his essay Ornament and Crime he abandoned the aesthetic principles of the Vienna Secession. In his essays, Loos used provocative catchphrases and has become noted for one particular essay/manifesto entitled Ornament and Crime, spoken first in 1910.In this essay, he explored the idea that the progress of culture is associated with the Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian architect.
Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos was an Austrian architect.
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